sorgenfri

for piano

about

"During the cold and long winter months when I was living in Malmö, I used to take the bus to school because it was too cold and sometimes too slippery to bike. Route 3 would drive from Värnhem, where I was living, straight down through an area called Sorgenfri.

I always found the name of that area, meaning free of sorrow, profoundly and poetically beautiful, seeing as there was a large graveyard in the centre of it."

— Eli Tausen á Lava

acknowledgements

Sorgenfri was composed with the support of the National Culture Fund of the Faroe Islands and Koda Kultur.

composition year

2021

duration

3′ 45″

Instrumentation

Piano