The work is also well known in its abridged form, a five-movement suite for orchestra that Madetoja excerpted from Acts I and II of the (then-unfinished) stage production's score and which Robert Kajanus premiered to acclaim in Bergen, Norway on 8 March 1923. The most famous number is "Vangin laulu" ("Prisoner's Song"), for which Madetoja set the popular Ostrobothnian folk song, "Tuuli se taivutti koivun larvan" ("The Wind Bent the Birch"); in addition to being the prelude to Act I of the opera, the melody also serves as its key leitmotif.