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Jean Sibelius was born as 'Johan Julius Christian Sibelius' on December, 8th 1865 and he was a composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods in Finland, a northern european country. All his major works, are regularly performed and recorded internationally.
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Valse Triste for piano Valse Triste for piano
Digital sheet music for piano, Op.44 No.1, (Sad Waltz), from the original orchestral version, fingerings included, arrangement by Andre' van Haren, piano editing by Oriol Lopez Calle.
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Be Still My Soul for choir Be Still My Soul for choir
Digital sheet music for choir (SATB: soprano, alto, tenor, bass). Jane L. Borthwick (composer), Katharina von Schegel (composer), John Purifoy (arranger, writer)
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Finlandia for string orchestra Finlandia for string orchestra
Digital sheet music for string orchestra, Finlandia: Score, full score.
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Danse Elegiaque from Scaramouche Op.71 for piano Danse Elegiaque from Scaramouche Op.71 for piano
Scaramouche, Op. 71, is incidental music by Jean Sibelius for a tragic pantomime by Poul Knudsen (1889–1974). Sibelius composed the work in 1913.
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Concerto in D minor Op.47 for violin and piano Concerto in D minor Op.47 for violin and piano
The Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47, was written by Jean Sibelius in 1904, revised in 1905. It is his only concerto. This item includes: PDF (digital sheet music to download and print), Interactive Sheet Music (for online playing, transposition and printing), Video, MIDI and Mp3 audio files (including Mp3 music accompaniment tracks to play along).
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Sibelius - A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland Sibelius - A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland
by Glenda Dawn Goss

One of the twentieth century’s greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Recasting his mysterious musical silence and his undeniably influential life against the backdrop of Finland’s national awakening, Sibelius will be the definitive biography of this creative legend for many years to come.
Glenda Dawn Goss begins her sweeping narrative in the Finland of Sibelius’s youth, which remained under Russian control for the first five decades of his life. Focusing on previously unexamined events, Goss explores the composer’s formative experiences as a Russian subject and a member of the Swedish-speaking Finnish minority. She goes on to trace Sibelius’s relationships with his creative contemporaries, with whom he worked to usher in a golden age of music and art that would endow Finns with a sense of pride in their heritage and encourage their hopes for the possibilities of nationhood. Skillfully evoking this artistic climate—in which Sibelius emerged as a leader—Goss creates a dazzling portrait of the painting, sculpture, literature, and music it inspired. To solve the deepest riddles of Sibelius’s life, work, and enigmatic silence, Goss contends, we must understand the awakening in which he played so great a role.
Situating this national creative tide in the context of Nordic and European cultural currents, Sibelius dramatically deepens our knowledge of a misunderstood musical giant and an important chapter in the intellectual history of Europe.
University of Chicago Press; December 2009
588 pages; ISBN 9780226304793
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Jean Sibelius - A Guide to Research Jean Sibelius - A Guide to Research
by Glenda Dawn Goss

First Published in 1998, High-quality guide to major research on the music of Sibelius. Highly recommended for academic libraries.
Taylor and Francis; October 2013
328 pages; ISBN 9781135541170
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The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius
The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius

Jean Sibelius has gradually emerged as one of the most striking and influential figures in twentieth-century music, yet his work is only just beginning to receive the critical attention that its importance deserves. This Companion provides an accessible and vivid account of Sibelius's work in its historical and cultural context. Leading international scholars, from Finland, the United States and the UK, examine Sibelius's music from a range of critical perspectives, including nationalism, eroticism and the exotic, music and landscape, reception and musical influence. There are also chapters on recording and interpretation that offer fascinating insights into the performance of Sibelius's work. The book includes much material, drawing on scholarship, as well as providing a comprehensive introduction to Sibelius's major musical achievements.
Cambridge University Press; February 2004
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius, Author: Daniel M. Grimley


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Discovering Classical Music: Sibelius His Life, The Person, His Music Discovering Classical Music: Sibelius His Life, The Person, His Music
by Ian Christians; Sir Charles Groves CBE

Ian Christians, for many years a passionate believer in broadening the interest in classical music, has developed a unique approach, designed to make it as easy as possible for both newcomers to classical music and those who have started down the path to explore with confidence. Discovering Classical Music concentrates on the greatest composers. The author takes you step-by-step into their most approachable music and, in some cases, boldly into some of the greatest works traditionally considered ‘too difficult’ for newcomers. Rarely does a book offer such potential for continued enjoyment.
Pen and Sword; April 2016
43 pages; ISBN 9781473888418
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Title: Discovering Classical Music: Sibelius, Author: Ian Christians; Sir Charles Groves CBE


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Jean Sibelius and His World Jean Sibelius and His World
by Daniel M. Grimley(ed.)

Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. At the height of his popular appeal, he was revered as the embodiment of Finnish nationalism and the apostle of a new musical naturalism. Yet he seemingly chose that moment to stop composing altogether, despite living for three more decades. Providing wide cultural contexts, contesting received ideas about modernism, and interrogating notions of landscape and nature, Jean Sibelius and His World sheds new light on the critical position occupied by Sibelius in the Western musical tradition.
Princeton University Press; August 2011
352 pages; ISBN 9781400840205
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The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius
by Alex Ross

This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme.
Jean Sibelius hailed from the ‘small nation’ of Finland. Working in isolation, far from the great artistic capitals of Europe, Ross shows how Sibelius’s reinvention of classical forms went on to set the pace for classical composers around the world.
Now a major festival running throughout 2013 at London’s Southbank, The Rest is Noise is an intricate commentary not just on the sounds that defined the century, but on art’s troublesome dance with politics, social and cultural change.
Alex Ross is the New Yorker’s music critic, and the winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Rest is Noise, which was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson and Pulitzer prizes for non-fiction.
HarperCollins Publishers; January 2013
30 pages; ISBN 9780007519590
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Title: The Rest Is Noise Series: Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius, Author: Alex Ross


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The Correspondence of Jean Sibelius and Rosa Newmarch, 1906-1939 The Correspondence of Jean Sibelius and Rosa Newmarch, 1906-1939
by Philip Ross Bullock(ed.)

Rosa Harriet Newmarch (1857-1940) was well-known in her lifetime as the leading British authority on Russian music, yet she also enjoyed a long and close friendship with the Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). This edition traces a personal and professional relationship that lasted more than three decades, as documented in more than 130 letters, notes and telegrams currently held in the National Archives of Finland. The correspondence, conducted in a mixture of French and German, reveals the intense friendship between Sibelius and Newmarch, sheds detailed light on Newmarch's contribution to the development of musical life in Britain, and provides some of Sibelius's most intimate commentary on his own works, as well as on those of other composers. This edition contains the complete extant correspondence between Newmarch and Sibelius in English translation, complemented by comprehensive commentaries on the events and personalities referred to, and is prefaced by an extensive introduction outlining Newmarch's definitive role in promoting Sibelius and his music in early twentieth-century Britain. An appendix reproduces a previously unknown programme note that Newmarch wrote for the first British performance of Sibelius's Fourth Symphony. The book's translation and publication of the letters in English is complemented by the letters' online availability in their original language. PHILIP ROSS BULLOCK is University Lecturer in Russian at the University of Oxford, and Tutor and Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford
Boydell & Brewer; October 2011
314 pages; ISBN 9781846159916
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Title: The Correspondence of Jean Sibelius and Rosa Newmarch, 1906-1939, Author: Philip Ross Bullock


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Sibelius Volume I: 1865-1905 Sibelius Volume I: 1865-1905
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Erik Tawaststjerna embarked on his authoritative study of Sibelius in 1960, and it occupied him for over a quarter of a century. His book differs from other work on the composer in one important respect: he had unrestricted access to the composer's papers, diaries and letters as well as the advantage of numerous conversations with the composer's widow and other members of the family. Thus his researches can justifiably claim to have thrown entirely fresh light on the great Finnish composer. Far from the remote personality of the Sibelius legend, Sibelius emerges as a highly colourful figure.
Translated by Robert Layton, himself a Sibelius specialist, this first volume (the first of three) takes us up to the period of the Second Symphony and the Violin Concerto, with perceptive and searching studies of the music including a number of early works, The Burning of the Boat, the Kullervo Symphony and the two versions of En Saga. 'A remarkable and deeply impressive book.
Faber & Faber; April 2012
ISBN 9780571287178
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Sibelius Volume II: 1904-1914 Sibelius Volume II: 1904-1914
by Erik Tawaststjerna

Erik Tawaststjerna embarked on his monumental and acclaimed study of Jean Sibelius's life and music in 1960 and it occupied him for over a quarter of a century. His study differs from other work on the composer in one important respect: he had unrestricted access to the composer's papers, diaries and letters as well as the advantage of numerous conversations with the composer's widow and other members of the family. Thus his researches can justifiably claim to have thrown entirely fresh light on the great Finnish composer. Far from the remote personality of the Sibelius legend, Sibelius emerges as a highly colourful figure.
This second volume covers the crucial period from 1904 and the beginning of the Third Symphony through to the outbreak of the First World War ten years later. During this period Sibelius began keeping a diary which, together with his letters to his wife, Aino, and to his friend, Axel Carpelan, helped the author give us a day-by-day, intimate account of the turbulent years that saw the gestation and completion of many of his finest works, culminating in the Fourth Symphony.
Translated by Robert Layton, himself a Sibelius specialist, this is a compelling and insightful account of the music of one of the twentieth century's greatest composers.
Faber & Faber; December 2013
318 pages; ISBN 9780571309443
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Title: Sibelius Volume II: 1904-1914, Author: Erik Tawaststjerna


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Sibelius Volume III: 1914-1957 Sibelius Volume III: 1914-1957
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Erik Tawaststjerna embarked on his monumental and acclaimed study of Jean Sibelius's life and music in 1960 and it occupied him for over a quarter of a century. His study differs from other work on the composer in one important respect: he had unrestricted access to the composer's papers, diaries and letters as well as the advantage of numerous conversations with the composer's widow and other members of the family. Thus his researches can justifiably claim to have thrown entirely fresh light on the great Finnish composer. Far from the remote personality of the Sibelius legend, Sibelius emerges as a highly colourful figure.
This third volume traces the composer's career from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, which found him poised on the brink of the Fifth Symphony, through to his death in 1957. It traces the genesis of the Fifth Symphony and gives a vivid portrait of Finland during the early years of independence and civil war. Tawaststjerna relates in fascinating detail the composer's financial plight during these years and his struggles with his own psyche. We follow his career through to the Seventh Symphony and Tapiola, and the increasingly corrosive streak of self-criticism which blighted Sibelius's last years and resulted in the destruction of the Eighth Symphony.
Translated by Robert Layton, himself a Sibelius specialist, this is a compelling and insightful account of the music of one of the twentieth century's greatest composers.
Faber & Faber; April 2012
ISBN 9780571287185
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
by James Hepokoski

Sibelius's Fifth is one of the great late-Romantic symphonies. In this searching account, based on a wealth of new information, James Hepokoski takes a fresh look at the work and its composer. His findings have implications beyond Sibelius himself into the entire repertory of Post-Wagnerian symphonic composition. The early chapters place the Fifth Symphony squarely within the general culture of European musical 'modernism' and focus in particular on the problem of the clash of that culture with the more radical 'New-Music' experiments of an emerging younger generation of composers. Subsequent chapters include a probing consideration of Sibelius's style and meditative aesthetic; an account of how the symphony was composed; and a descriptive analysis of the final, familiar version. The book concludes with a discussion of the composer's own prescribed tempos for the Fifth Symphony, along with a comparison of several different recordings.
Cambridge University Press; April 1993
123 pages; ISBN 9780511878657
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Symphonies 1 and 2 in Full Score Symphonies 1 and 2 in Full Score
by Jean Sibelius

Finland's greatest composer and a major figure in the development of Scandinavian music, Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) is admired for his complete mastery of symphonic form. Of the seven symphonies he composed, each differs greatly from the others, for Sibelius rarely approached the symphonic "problem" the same way. Each work seems committed to the thoughts, feelings, and logic of the movement. Sibelius's first two symphonies remain among his most accessible and popular. Of all his symphonic works, perhaps the First Symphony, composed in 1898–99, adheres most to classical form yet reflects the spirit of Nordic nationalism that came to be associated with the composer's music. The Second Symphony, perhaps his most expansive and melodious work in symphonic form, demonstrates Sibelius's increasing command of orchestral form and scoring. These two major works are reprinted here from the definitive full-score editions published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig.
Dover Publications; June 2013
320 pages; ISBN 9780486319872
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Jean Sibelius Kindle Edition Jean Sibelius Kindle Edition
by Karl Ekman

This book contains an unusual biography of the well-known Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, focusing mainly on the man behind the music. Preface: 'It is not our intention in this book to enter into competition with the numerous responsible and subtle commentators, who have analysed and described Jean Sibelius the composer and his work in an excellent way. We are attracted by a hitherto untrodden field and have devoted our interest to Jean Sibelius the man, the unique personality behind his work. Whenever we have found it necessary to discuss some of the creations of this master hand as especially typical of important stages of his life and of striking features of his personality, we have kept our analysis and characterisation on the plane of common humanity. An attempt to give a complete picture of Jean Sibelius the man calls for no excuse. Like every artist of a high order Sibelius has exerted an influence on his contemporaries far in excess of the limits of the direct effects of his art. As a proclaimer in music of the feelings and dreams of his people he has become a leading figure in the history of Finland, as a fearless combatant in the lists of universal musical art one of the great, whose struggle and purpose contributed towards forming the spiritual physiognomy of the twentieth century. What such a man experienced, how he viewed the personalities he met, how he wrestled with the problems that life set him, how he reacted to tendencies and events in various spheres of life - none of this can be a matter of indifference to his contemporaries. Most of the materials of this book are the result of personal conversations with Sibelius in a dozen sittings lasting all day in his country home at Jarvenpaa, an hours journey by train to the north of the capital of Finland. In our talks the master placed himself at our disposal with all the kindness of his generous nature without allowing his persistent questioner to notice any sign of impatience...
Print Length: 332 pages
Publisher: Hesperides Press (April 16, 2013)
Publication Date: April 16, 2013


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My Music, My Drinking & Me: The Memoirs of Jean Sibelius My Music, My Drinking & Me: The Memoirs of Jean Sibelius
by Caroline J Sinclair

This book truly brings the Sibelius story to life and offers a new and fascinating insight into his development both as a composer and as a man - a must-have book for all those who appreciate Sibelius's music, whether they are musicians, students or other music lovers, or for those who love historical novels.
Based on true events and told from Sibelius’s own point of view, My Music, My Drinking & Me - The Memoirs of Jean Sibelius is the story of Finland’s greatest composer, one of the foremost symphonists of the 20th century.
It is a turbulent and violent period in European history, and Finland is struggling to gain and maintain its independence. Sibelius is expected by many to be a spokesman for his country. However, he is uncomfortable with the position thrust upon him; he has no desire to make political statements through his music, wanting only to depict the elemental forces of Finnish nature. On a more personal level, he is battling with alcoholism; he believes that he needs alcohol to be able to write music, but does his drinking foster or hinder his creativity? Furthermore, if he does not give up drinking, it will cost him his marriage. Which is the stronger - his need to drink or his desire to save his marriage before it is too late?
Print Length: 246 pages
Publisher: MAK Publishing (November 3, 2015)
Publication Date: November 3, 2015


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Ten Pieces, Op. 58: For Piano Solo Ten Pieces, Op. 58: For Piano Solo
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A collection of late-intermediate piano solos composed by Jean Sibelius.
Print Length: 52 pages
Publisher: Alfred Music Publication Date: October 27, 2015


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From Sibelius to Sallinen: Finnish Nationalism and the Music of Finland From Sibelius to Sallinen: Finnish Nationalism and the Music of Finland
Bibliographies and Indexes in Sociology, by Lisa De Gorog

This comprehensive study of the evolution of Finnish art music from continental predecessors and native folk music traces the development of Sibelius's musical language from his first major work, Kullervo, the first genuine Finnish recitative, to the last tone poem, Tapiola. De Gorog asserts the importance of En Saga, Sibelius's first major, purely orchestral work, as a composition that affirms the composer's belief in both rhythm and in the variation method (the germ motif technique). The impact of folk music on the germ motif technique as well as on melody, phrase construction, and harmony are also analyzed. Although Sibelius's use of rhythm was more restrained than that of Bartok, Stravinsky, or Prokofiev, similarities in basic trends and folk music influences are noted by de Gorog. From Sibelius to Sallinen emphasizes the importance of various aspects of Finnish culture, the historical events that shaped that culture, and Finnish nationalism in the evolution of Finnish music in general. It also delineates the major sources of inspiration for Sibelius's unique musical idiom. The volume clarifies Sibelius's position as founder of Finnish art music and considers the evolution of trends established by him in the works of younger Finnish composers...
... Print Length: 261 pages
Publisher: Praeger (December 6, 1989)
Publication Date: December 6, 1989


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Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu, Timo Koivusalo

With his seven symphonies the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius marks a high point in the symphonic repertoire of the 20th century. The music evokes the ghostliness of the Finnish landscape, carries an inner strength and depth and proves itself full of technical finesse that still poses a challenge for both conductors and performers.

A beautifully packaged Blu-Ray box edition commemorating Sibelius 150th birthday with a spotlight on his seminal symphony cycle that are among the canonical works of the 20th century. With the musical evocations of his Finnish landscape Sibelius symphonic works are known for their depth and technical challenge and continue to provide challenge for conductors and performers and delight to audiences. Sibelius likened his symphonies to declarations of faith, and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra led by Hannu Lintu deliver mightily towards this mission with this comprehensive collection. For the first time, the entirety of Sibeliuss symphonies are available in audio-visual format with the outstanding addition of documentaries that precede each symphony narrated by Lintu providing context and information. The short film series Sort Of Sibelius! is also included and it introduces the man behind the music with narration provided by one of the more scintillating composers working today, Sibelius compatriot Kaija Saariaho.
1. Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39
2. Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43
3. Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52
4. Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63
5. Symphony No. 5 in E-fl at major, Op. 82
6. Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104
7. Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105

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