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...
2(Picc).2.2.2. - 4.3.3.1. - Pk.Schl - Hfe - Str (Virtanen, Timo)
Sibelius' 3rd in the 'last hand version' If Jean Sibelius really called his 3rd Symphony the 'most unfortunate child', was he perhaps thinking not only of the hesitant reception but also of the diffic...
This volume of the Sibelius Complete Edition contains seven orchestral works, five of which Jean Sibelius originally composed as incidental music. However, he later separated these works from their co...
The present volume contains five orchestral works, which Sibelius composed in 1904-1910: Die Dryade (Op. 45 No. 1), Musik zu einer Szene [Op. 45 No. 2/1904], Tanz-Intermezzo (Op. 45 No. 2), Pohjolas T...
Sibelius' beginning as a symphonist. The content of Jean Sibelius' first orchestral works is influenced by Finnish legends (Kullervo, En saga). Even a few years later, he initially planned a multi-mov...
Virtanen, Timo - 2 versions, 1 first printing 'Cassazione op. 6' continues to be considered a Sibelius secret: both the hitherto unpublished version with large orchestra and the version with reduced i...
In the end, Jean Sibelius wrote his Violin Concerto more or less twice. The differences between the original version of 1903/04, which the composer self-critically withdrew immediately after the first...
