SACRED FOLK MUSIC AND REVIVALIST HYMNS , discovered in the late nineteenth century, particularly among revivalists of the Finnish-speaking common people. This music was almost unknown to the Swedish-speaking educated classes who attended only liturgical services in the churches.
When the religious interest of the upper classes in Sweden and Finland cooled because of the spreading Enlightenment movement of the late eighteenth century, farmhouses and country parsonages sheltered the spiritual...