Symphonie_enfantine_(Klami)
Symphonie enfantine (Klami)
Symphonic work in three movements by Uuno Klami
The Symphonie enfantine (in Finnish: Lapsisinfonia; English translation: 'Children's Symphony') is a three-movement composition for chamber orchestra by the Finnish composer Uuno Klami, who wrote the piece in 1928 (and possibly into 1929).[lower-alpha 1][1][2] Toivo Haapanen and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra premiered the work at the University of Helsinki on 14 December 1931, during Klami's "highly-acclaimed" second composition concert.[3] Symphonic in name rather than in technique,[4] the Symphonie enfantine is the first of Klami's three symphonies and the only of the series to not receive a number: the First Symphony arrived subsequently in 1938 and the Second Symphony (Op. 35) in 1945.