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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 ...
Sibelius admired Rydberg and often set his poetry to music, including the melodrama Snöfrid, Op. 29, and the War Song of Tyrtaeus. [6] [7] [8] The poem Skogsrået was first published in 1882, and in 1883 Sibelius's future friend, the artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela, illustrated it.
The Lemminkäinen Suite, or more correctly Four Legends from the Kalevala, Op. 22, is a sequence of four tone poems for orchestra completed in 1896 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The work was conceived as Veneen luominen ( The Building of the Boat ), an opera with a mythological setting, before taking its form as a suite.
Jean Sibelius (/ s ɪ ˈ b eɪ l i ə s /; Finland Swedish: [siˈbeːliʉs] ⓘ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; [1] 8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods.
The Oceanides (in Finnish: Aallottaret; literal English translation: Nymphs of the Waves or Spirits of the Waves; original working title: Rondeau der Wellen; in English: Rondo of the Waves), Op. 73, is a single-movement tone poem for orchestra written from 1913 to 1914 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
The Seven Runeberg Songs, Op. 13, [a] is a collection of Swedish-language art songs for vocal soloist and piano written from 1891 to 1892 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius; [b] each is a setting of a poem by the Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg.
The Dryad (in Finnish: Dryadi), Op. 45/1, is a tone poem for orchestra written in 1910 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. He completed it between skiing trips. He conducted the first performance in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway, on 8 October 1910, together with the premiere of In memoriam. He arranged it for piano in 1910 (Die Dryade). The ...