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Jean Sibelius
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ISBN: 0313204705 9780313204708 Year: 1978 Publisher: Westport Greenwood Press

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Finnish composers since the 1960s
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ISBN: 9516923631 9789516923638 Year: 1995 Publisher: Helsinki : Foundation for the promotion of Finnish music - Finnish music information centre,

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Sibelius
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ISBN: 046086064X 9780460860642 Year: 1992 Volume: *4 Publisher: London : J. M. Dent & sons LTD,

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Jean Sibelius
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ISBN: 2213616639 9782213616636 Year: 2004 Publisher: [S.l.] Fayard


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ISBN: 0571088333 0571088325 9780571088324 Year: 1976 Publisher: London Faber and Faber


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Jean Sibelius and His World
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ISBN: 1786840219 128315255X 9786613152558 1400840201 0691152810 0691152802 9781400840205 9781283152556 9780691152806 9780691152813 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. At the height of his popular appeal, he was revered as the embodiment of Finnish nationalism and the apostle of a new musical naturalism. Yet he seemingly chose that moment to stop composing altogether, despite living for three more decades. Providing wide cultural contexts, contesting received ideas about modernism, and interrogating notions of landscape and nature, Jean Sibelius and His World sheds new light on the critical position occupied by Sibelius in the Western musical tradition. The essays in the book explore such varied themes as the impact of Russian musical traditions on Sibelius, his compositional process, Sibelius and the theater, his understanding of music as a fluid and improvised creation, his critical reception in Great Britain and America, his "late style" in the incidental music for The Tempest, and the parallel contemporary careers of Sibelius and Richard Strauss. Documents include the draft of Sibelius's 1896 lecture on folk music, selections from a roman à clef about his student circle in Berlin at the turn of the century, Theodor Adorno's brief but controversial tirade against the composer, and the newspaper debates about the Sibelius monument unveiled in Helsinki a decade after the composer's death. The contributors are Byron Adams, Leon Botstein, Philip Ross Bullock, Glenda Dawn Goss, Daniel Grimley, Jeffrey Kallberg, Tomi Mäkelä, Sarah Menin, Max Paddison, and Timo Virtanen.

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