Sibelius appears to have vacillated over a name for the new tone poem. By 3 April 1914 he had dropped " " in favor of '. On 29 April he wrote to Parker in favor of the original title ("Herr Doctor, now you must forgive me for performing the new tone poem in its final version with the original title " ". The version "Aallottaret" that I sent to you can stay with Mr. Stoeckel".). This position, too, proved fleeting. By the end of May, Sibelius had settled on ', and the tone poem appeared under this title, albeit misspelled, on the 4 June Norfolk Festival program: " '—Tone Poem (Nymphs of the Ocean)". In preparation for the publication of the tone poem by Breitkopf & Härtel in June 1915, Sibelius included alongside the Finnish title, ', an "explanatory" German translation, "" (in English: "The Oceanides"). The piece was published as Op. 73 and dedicated to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stoeckel.