JEAN SIBELIUS

Sinopsis del producto

Jean Sibelius is one of the most prominent and popular composers to have emerged from Northern Europe. His music isquintessentially the product of the natural landscapes (physical, ethnic, historical and political) of his native Finland, and although he is known primarily as a symphonist,his Violin Concerto and works such as the symphonic poem Finlandia have also hecome Staples of the orchestral repertoire. In his homeland, Sibelius attained monumental status, but for so public a figure, much of his life has been shrouded in mystery. As this book shows, he was plagued by self-doubtand the long silence of his final thirty years was in reality bound up with the composition of his Eighth Symphony, which he ultimately destroyed. Throughout his life, Sibelius oscillated between a vision ofhimself as a cosmopolitan figure in European music, and the natíonalíst tone-poet closely tied to Finland´s move towardsindependence. His creative output reflected this dualism, between the abstraer and the programmatic, the classical andthe romantic, with himself as both high priest of the symphony and perpetrator of light music pot-boilers.

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RICKARDS, GUY