Jean Sibelius
Sämtliche Werke Serie I (Orchesterwerke) Band 6a: Symphonie Nr. 5 Es-dur op. 82
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Jean Sibelius
Sämtliche Werke Serie I (Orchesterwerke) Band 6a: Symphonie Nr. 5 Es-dur op. 82
- Instrumentation Orchestra
- Composer Jean Sibelius
- Editor Timo Virtanen
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Breitkopf & Härtel KG
- Order no. SON641
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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 Imperial Alexander University (University of Helsinki); Sibelius conducted the Helsinki City Orchestra. The celebrations honoring Sibelius and his music were not limited to his birthday. Over the following five weeks, his works were performed frequently, with the Fifth Symphony alone being performed three times in Helsinki. The program of the gala concert was repeated on December 12 at the National Theater and on December 18 in the university’s ballroom. The reception of the Fifth Symphony was very positive. Following the latter concert, the composer and critic Otto Kotilainen wrote in *Helsingin Sanomat* that, in terms of the treatment of themes and form, the Fourth Symphony marked a turning point in Sibelius’s oeuvre, but the "Fifth, the most recent of the symphonies, is perfection in this direction."" He continued: "The actual themes are condensed into motifs; they are not constructed from phrases [and] periods, as the classical style implies. But the development of these motifs—their expansion and intensification in various relationships of dynamics and keys—is masterful. The various motifs of each movement are so interconnected that one could regard them as a single, vast theme. The form is free, yet at the same time so perfectly fixed that omitting or adding even the shortest measure would disrupt the formal structure." Nevertheless, Sibelius revised the work twice more afterward: first for a concert that took place exactly one year later in Turku, and then in 1918–1919. This volume contains the 1915 version, published here for the first time. The autograph score of this version is lost, but the orchestral parts have survived and were used to reconstruct the score in this volume.
Binding: Cloth-bound
Binding: Cloth-bound