Jean Sibelius

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Mit über 1.200 Titeln aus Orchester- und Chorliteratur, Kammermusik und Musiktheater ist die Edition Eulenburg die größte Partiturreihe der Welt. Sie deckt einen großen Teil der Musikgeschichte vom Ba...

CONCERT OVERTURE is a 12-minute work for small orchestra. Sibelius conducted the premiere performance in Turku, Finland on 7 April, 1900. The work has not been performed since the first years of the 2...

Edition for piano (EB8176) by the composer

The famous Valse triste grew out of the incidental music to Arvid Järnefelts drama Kuolema (Death). After the first staged performances in December 1903 at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Si...

The famous Valse triste grew out of the incidental music to Arvid Järnefelts drama Kuolema (Death). After the first staged performances in December 1903 at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Si...

The famous Valse triste grew out of the incidental music to Arvid Järnefelts drama Kuolema (Death). After the first staged performances in December 1903 at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Si...

The famous Valse triste grew out of the incidental music to Arvid Järnefelts drama Kuolema (Death). After the first staged performances in December 1903 at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Si...

The famous Valse triste grew out of the incidental music to Arvid Järnefelts drama Kuolema (Death). After the first staged performances in December 1903 at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Si...

In the fall of 1909, Sibelius wrote in his diary: 'At Koli! One of the greatest experiences of my life. Plans [for] 'La Montagne'! It turned out that these were plans for the Fourth Symphony. The comp...

Viewed closely, Lemminkäinen op. 22 could well be called the 'zeroth' Sibelius symphony, for the early versions of these four tone poems date back to 1895/96, i.e. to the time before the 1st symphony....

Sibelius on the organ today? - More than ever! A look at the history of transcriptions of the famous 'Karelia Suite' reveals something astonishing: when Herbert A. Fricker selected orchestral movement...

CD City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra cond. Sakari Oramo ERATO 8573 85822-2 London Symphony Orchestra cond. Sir Colin Davis BMG 7321 68945 2 Masayo Matsuo Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra cond. Neeme...

The 'Valse triste' originates from a multi-movement incidental music that Sibelius put together in 1903. Detached from this functional framework, the concert version of the 'Valse triste', composed sh...

Where else than in the land of 1000 lakes could a symphonic work be created, which has the world current Okeanos and its 4000 daughters (Okeanides) as its theme?

The fact that the Sibelius Symphony, which is now performed most often, provoked controversial aesthetic reactions after its first performances in Finland at the time seems almost inconceivable today.

The premiere of 'Luonnotar' took place on September 10, 1913 at the Shire Hall in Gloucester. Luonnotar' is not only Sibelius' most important work for Ackté, it is one of his most important works ever...

Über den Kompositionsprozess von Lemminkäinenist wenig bekannt und die Aufführungs- und Veröffentlichungsgeschichte ist ziemlich komplex. Eine vollständige Veröffentlichung aller vier Sätze als Suite...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen, and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all four movements en sui...