Jean Sibelius’s Six Songs for Male Choir Op. 18 are published as Urtext with the original Finnish lyrics for the first time in this edition. Most of these stem from the Finnish national epics Kalevala and Kanteletar, but the texts of Sydämeni laulu [Song of My Heart] and Metsämiehen laulu [Song of the Woodmen] are from the poet Aleksis Kivi.

The individual pieces originated over a couple of years for different choirs and occasions and were only later combined by Sibelius under a common Opus n...