Jean Sibelius

Finlandia, Op. 26, by composer Jean Sibelius, is one of the most significant works in the Finnish symphonic repertoire. Composed in 1899, it emerged against the backdrop of the national awakening unde...

Eine Rarität für Viola-Spieler: Erstausgabe dieses seltenen Werkes für Viola und Klavier von Jean Sibelius aus dem Jahr 1893. (Basierend auf Sibelius' Piano Quintet von 1890. ) Mit Kommentaren von Pia...

Jean Sibelius composed far less music for the cello than for the violin. Malinconia (op. 20) - published in 1911 but composed in 1900 under the title Fantasia - remained his only opus-numbered work ex...

Zu dieser großen Verbreitung trug der Originalverlag Breitkopf & Härtel durch verschiedene Fassungen und Bearbeitungen entscheidend bei. Die Bearbeitungen von Friedrich Hermann (Violine, Viola, Violon...

Based on Sibelius' Finlandia, this impressive selection is like two phenomenal arrangements in one: the first half, a stunning homophonic treatment of 'This Is My Song‚' the second half, a Zulu transl...

The anthem from the tone poem *Finlandia*, Op. 26, for orchestra is one of Jean Sibelius’s best-known works and, with lyrics by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (1906–1962), became Finland’s unofficial natio...

Deeply moving, comforting, and of timeless grandeur: With 'Be Still, My Soul', Breitkopf & Härtel presents one of the most cherished hymns in choral music, based on the famous chorale theme from Jean...

Five multi-movement trios for piano and two string instruments by Sibelius are known from the years 1883–1888. The “large” trios, such as the Havträsk and Korpo Trio (JS 207, JS 209), were written for...

Five multi-movement trios for piano and two string instruments by Sibelius are known from the years 1883–1888. The “large” trios, such as the Havträsk and Korpo Trio (JS 207, JS 209), were written for...

Annäherung an den 'En saga'-Urklang 'En saga', die erste bekannte Tondichtung von Jean Sibelius, entstand nicht voraussetzungslos als Orchesterpartitur. Der junge finnische Komponist konzipierte in se...

Sibelius was a major force in the Finnish national movement and many of his works were inspired by the music and the culture of his homeland. In this transcription, arranger Andrew Middleton aimed to...

'The Swan of Tuonela' is the most famous of the four symphonic poems that Jean Sibelius composed under the title Lemminkäinen-Suite op. 22. It is one of the most beautiful and expressive solo pieces e...

Expose your students to a wide variety of styles and moods, all within one powerful piece! After a stark, chromatic opening, a festive section based on a variety of fanfare-like motifs is heard. The e...

This Sibelius masterwork is now intelligently transcribed for today's orchestra. Vital brass entrances have preparation to assure secure attack. Careful doubling, cuing, and more, will allow the work...

Spring Song, Op. 16 (Vårsång) was written in 1894 by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) and was initially titled Improvisation for Orchestra. Sibelius revised the single-movement tone poem a year later and ret...

Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 is undoubtedly one of the most sublime and powerful masterpieces of late-Romantic orchestral literature. The fact that Sibelius' now most-performed sym...

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 the four movements en...

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 the four movements en...

… a forest god in New York The symphonic poem Tapiola is the final major composition for orchestra that Sibelius was able to complete and publish. In January 1926 he had accepted the commission from t...

I am now working on a new symphony, entirely in the Finnish spirit, wrote 25-year-old Jean Sibelius to his fiancée, Aino Järnefelt, in April 1891. Just one year later, his work for soprano and bariton...

Im Rahmen der Neuausgabe der Sibelius-Werke wurde auch die Partitur dieses sehr beliebten Werkes im Dirigierformat veröffentlicht.

Sibelius completed his Fifth Symphony, Op. 82, in time for a concert organized to celebrate his 50th birthday on December 8, 1915. The festive concert in Helsinki took place in the ballroom of the Imp...