- Composer: Tormis, Veljo
- Years: 07.08.1930 - 21.01.2017
- Title: Estonian Ballads
- Genre: WORKS FOR THE STAGE
- Instrumentation: soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, bass, mixed choir, symphony orchestra: 2232, 4231, percussion (5), celesta, harp, 5-stringed Finnish zither, strings
- Number of movements: 2/12
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Titles of movements:
Part I
1. Prologue (The Daughter’s Fate)
2. A Chaste Girl
3. Epigraph I
4. A Girl in the Wrong
5. Epigraph II
6. The Husband-killer
7. Epigraph III
8. The Wife-killer
Part II
9. Epigraph IV
10. The Wife of Gold
11. The Wife from the Grave
12. Epilogue - Librettist: Lea Tormis, traditional texts arranged by Ülo Tedre (in Estonian)
- Incipit (lyrics): Emal oli hulka tüttereida, üleliia linikpäida.
- Publisher: SP Muusika
- Year: 1980.
Manuscripts
- Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
- Sort: Score
- Composer: Tormis, Veljo
- Work: Estonian Ballads
- Number of pages: 372
- Date: 1979/1980
- Status: Finished
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_12714 M 318:2/7
- Additional notes: 1st part
- Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
- Sort: Score
- Composer: Tormis, Veljo
- Work: Estonian Ballads
- Number of pages: 320
- Date: 03.05.1980
- Status: Finished
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_12714 M 318:2/8
- Additional notes: 2nd part
- Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
- Sort: Piano score
- Composer: Tormis, Veljo
- Work: Estonian Ballads
- Number of pages: 280
- Date:
- Status: Finished
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_12714 M 318:2/9
- Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
- Sort: Piano score
- Composer: Tormis, Veljo
- Work: Estonian Ballads
- Number of pages: 264
- Date: 24.04.1980
- Status: Finished
- Draft: Yes
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_12714 M 318:2/10
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