My Own Land

My Own Land (in Finnish: Oma maa; occasionally translated to English as Our Native Land), Op. 92, is a single-movement, patriotic cantata for mixed choir and orchestra written in 1918 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The piece, which is a setting of Kallio's (a pseudonym for Samuli Kustaa Bergh) Finnish-language poem of the same name, is chronologically the sixth of Sibelius's nine orchestral cantatas; in particular, it belongs to the series of four "little known, but beautiful" cantatas from the composer's mature period that also includes Song of the Earth (Op. 93, 1919), Hymn of the Earth (Op. 95, 1920), and Väinämöinen's Song (Op. 110, 1926). My Own Land premiered on 25 October 1918 in Helsinki with Armas Maasalo conducting the Helsinki Youth League (the predecessor to the Finnish National Chorus)—the commissioning ensemble and dedicatee—and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.