Six Runeberg Songs

{{Short description|Collection of art songs by Jean Sibelius (1917)}}

{{Infobox musical composition

| name = Six Runeberg Songs

| type = Song collection

| composer = {{nowrap|Jean Sibelius}}

| image = Sibelius.gif

| image_upright = .9

| caption = The composer ({{c.|1918}})

| border = Yes

| language = German

| opus = 90

| composed = {{start date|1917}}

}}

{{external media

| topic = Sung by Anne Sofie von Otter,
accompanied by Bengt Forsberg

| audio1 = 1) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVvLurj2TyY "{{lang|sv|Norden|italics=no}}"]

| audio2 = 2) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q7Zt8VSPoo "{{lang|sv|Hennes budskap|italics=no}}"]

| audio3 = 3) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2zJov1n9Kk "{{lang|sv|Morgonen|italics=no}}"]

| audio4 = 4) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoWFgXuMRRE "{{lang|sv|Fågelfängaren|italics=no}}"]

| audio5 = 5) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HPu-hcjO3Q "{{lang|sv|Sommarnatten|italics=no}}"]

| audio6 = 6) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx5jpZbrMU4 "{{lang|sv|Vem styrde hit din väg?|italics=no}}"]

}}

The Six Runeberg Songs, Op. 90,{{efn|Because Sibelius's Op. 90 songs are sung in Swedish, this article gives preference to each song's native title, rather than the English translation.}} is a collection of Swedish-language art songs for vocal soloist and piano written in 1917 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius,{{efn|All but a few of Sibelius's songs are settings of Swedish-language poems (quantitatively, his favorite poets were Ernst Josephson, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Viktor Rydberg, and {{ill|Karl August Tavaststjerna|fi|}}){{sfn|Layton|1993|pp=160–161}} and are with piano accompaniment. While many are of high quality, they largely have been neglected outside the Nordic realm, due to the limited coverage (in terms of number of speakers) of Swedish (relative to, for example, German or French).{{sfn|Layton|1993|pp=159–160}}}} who composed them for his frequent collaborator, the Finnish soprano Ida Ekman. Each song is a setting of a poem by the Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and of the set, "{{lang|sv|Norden|italics=no}}" ("The North") generally is considered the best.{{sfnm|1a1=Barnett|1y=2007|1pp=273–274|2a1=Layton|2y=1993|2p=179}}