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The Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43, is a four-movement work for orchestra written from 1901 to 1902 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. He began writing the symphony in winter 1901 in Rapallo, Italy, shortly after the successful premiere of the popular Finlandia. Sibelius said, "My second symphony is a confession of the soul." [5]
The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) wrote over 550 original works during his eight-decade artistic career. [1] This began around 1875 with a short miniature for violin and cello called Water Droplets (Vattendroppar), [2] and ended a few months before his death at age 91 with the orchestration of two earlier songs, "Kom nu hit, död" ("Come Away, Death") and "Kullervon valitus ...
Symphony No. 5 was premiered in Helsinki to great acclaim by Sibelius himself on 8 December 1915, his 50th birthday. The version most commonly performed today is the final revision, consisting of three movements, presented in 1919. The Fifth is Sibelius's only symphony in a major key throughout.
The Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52, is a three-movement work for orchestra written from 1904 to 1907 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.. Coming between the romantic intensity of Sibelius's first two symphonies and the more austere complexity of his later symphonies, it is a good-natured, triumphal, and deceptively simple-sounding piece.
Symphony No. 1 (Sibelius) Symphony No. 2 (Sibelius) Symphony No. 3 (Sibelius) Symphony No. 4 (Sibelius) Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius) Symphony No. 6 (Sibelius)
Many of classical music's conductor–orchestra partnerships have recorded the complete set, colloquially known as the "Sibelius cycle". [2] Specifically, the standard cycle includes: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, [a] Op. 39 (1899; minor revisions 1900) Symphony No. 2 in D major, [b] Op. 43 (1902) Symphony No. 3 in C major, [c] Op. 52 (1907)
Symphony No. 2 (Szymanowski) in B-flat major (Op. 19) by Karol Szymanowski, 1909–10; Symphony No. 2 (Tchaikovsky), in C minor (Op. 17, Little Russian) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1872; Symphony No. 2 (Tippett) by Michael Tippett, 1956–57; Symphony No. 2 (Ustvolskaya) (True and Eternal Bliss) by Galina Ustvolskaya, 1979; Symphony No. 2 ...
The Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82, is a three-movement work for orchestra written from 1914 to 1915 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. He revised it in 1916 and again from 1917 to 1919, at which point it reached its final form.