Lemminkäinen Suite

22, is a sequence of four tone poems for orchestra completed in 1896 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

The work was conceived as Veneen luominen (The Building of the Boat), an opera with a mythological setting, before taking its form as a suite.

There is a narrative thread: the exploits are followed of the heroic character Lemminkäinen from the Kalevala, which is a collection of folkloric, mythic, epic poetry.

The second tone poem, The Swan of Tuonela, is popular as a standalone orchestral work.

[5] The first two though were withdrawn by the composer soon after its premiere and were neither performed, nor added to the published score of the suite until 1935.