Originally the final section of its composer's Music for Press Ceremony, it was often performed under titles like Finale and Impromptu to avoid Russian censors.
An early version of this piece followed another piece titled "The Great Hate" and was the final tableau adapted from its composer's melodrama The Melting of the Ice on the Ulea River. Opening with a foreboding brass progression, it contains repeating trumpet blasts around a third of the way through before introducing a hymnal theme adapted from an Emil Genetz song. Originally the final section of its composer's Music for Press Ceremony, it was often performed under titles like Finale and Impromptu to avoid Russian censors. Ending with a namesake hymn for which words were written by V.A. Koskenniemi, for 10 points, name this patriotic tone poem by Jean Sibelius.
An early version of this piece followed another piece titled "The Great Hate" and was the final tableau adapted from its composer's melodrama The Melting of the Ice on the Ulea River.
{Finlandia} [accept {Jean Sibelius's Opus 26}; accept {Happy Feelings} at the {awakening} of {Finnish Spring} or {Finland Awakens}; prompt on {Music} for {Press Ceremony} before it is read]