"Uti vår hage" ("Out in our meadow"
or "In our meadow"
) is a traditional Swedish
folk song first published in
Gotland sometime during the 1880s by
Hugo Lutteman,
though it is also considered to have earlier origins as far back as the 1600s.
The piece became widely published in the 1890s and is associated with a boom in interest in folk traditions in Sweden during this decade.
The piece continues to be well known by the Swedish populace, performed frequently by choral groups, and has been described as a "national song treasure" typically taught to schoolchildren. Also owing to this popularity is an arrangement of the piece by composer
Hugo Alfvén
Hugo Emil Alfvén (; 1 May 18728 May 1960) was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.
Career
Violinist
Alfvén was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and studied at the Royal College of Music (Kungliga Musikhögskolan) from 1887 ...
in 1923.
The piece is often performed, among other Swedish traditional songs, during
Walpurgis Night
Walpurgis Night (), an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night (from the German ), also known as Saint Walpurga's Eve (alternatively spelled Saint Walburga's Eve), is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess ...
.
Recordings
An early recording was made in the acoustic version of in 1916, and appeared on the album of the same year. The song has also been recorded in English by
Engel Lund, with Ferdinand Rauter on the piano under a different translation, "Out in the Garden" in London January 26, 1954, which was released on record in June the same year. The Swedish music band
State of Sound covered the song in 2016.
In film
The piece appears in the following films:
Uti vår hage
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The Swedish Film Database ( sv, Svensk filmdatabas) is an Internet database about Swedish films, published by the Swedish Film Institute. It contains information about all Swedish films from 1897 onwards and foreign films that had cinema premiere ...
* ''Du gamla du fria'' (1938)
* '' Hem från Babylon'' (1941)
* ''Som du vill ha mej'' (1943)
* ''Kärlek och allsång'' (1944)
* ''Janne Vängman i farten'' (1954)
* ''Sista dansen
''Sista dansen'' (en. ''The Last Dance'') is a Danish-Norwegian-Swedish 1993 film directed by Colin Nutley. The film was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nomine ...
'' (1993)
* ''Hästmannen'' (2006)
* ''Linas kvällsbok'' (2007)
References
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Compositions by Hugo Alfvén
Swedish folk songs