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Lorin Varencove Maazel (/ m ə ˈ z ɛ l /; [1] March 6, 1930 – July 13, 2014) was an American conductor, violinist and composer.He began conducting at the age of eight and by 1953 had decided to pursue a career in music.
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 ...
Although early advocates from the 1930s and 1940s had conducted many of Sibelius's symphonies from gramophone, none of these Sibelians recorded all seven. [19] In February 1952, Metronome (the United States distributor was Mercury) and Decca each began cycles: the former enlisted the Swedish conductor Sixten Ehrling and the Stockholm Radio Orchestra (now the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic ...
At the marriage of Riitta Sibelius, a niece of the composer, in 1929, Andante festivo was performed by two string quartets, perhaps with modifications. [3] Sibelius listened often to the radio in the 1930s. He thought about composing for the radio in a different way, to accommodate the distortions created by the loudspeakers of the time.
Symphony No. 8 (Sibelius) This page was last edited on 18 March 2024, at 12:16 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Valse triste (literal English translation: Sad Waltz), Op. 44/1, is a short orchestral work by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.It was originally part of the incidental music he composed for his brother-in-law Arvid Järnefelt's 1903 play Kuolema (Death), but is far better known as a separate concert piece.
Sibelius composed in 1898 seven movements. He conducted the first performance of the first four parts the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki on 24 February 1898. In the following summer, he composed three more movements, Nocturne, Serenade and Ballad. The Nocturne was an interlude between the first act and the second. The position of the serenade changed.