#jean sibelius

[redgrasshopper]

hi guyz

I kind of forgot to post anything, but I put together an image with some composers that I know of/like.

Guess who's my favorite :)

[2seeitall]

Sibelius Monument by Eila Hiltunen

Location: Sibelius Park (Helsinki, Finland)

 dedicated to a Finnish composer Jean Sibelius

[gatabella]

Ava Gardner during the filming of Ride, Vaquero!, 1953

"Music was always in her blood, but as long as the radio blared with good jazz or swing, that was for Ava and you could keep the rest. Now she buys records. Now Debussy, Ravel and Sibelius send her, and she looks forward to the day when she'll understand Beethoven. The ex-playgirl can have a heavenly time, eating dinner alone, listening to records and reading. Or spending an evening with a few like-minded friends, whose interests range far beyond Hollywood and Vine. Except for Duff and the Van Heflins, they’re not movie people. Three years ago she’d have thought it would bore her silly to sit quietly, talking the hours away. Now she finds that nothing makes her feel more alive than the process of stretching her mental horizons."

-Modern Screen magazine, March 1949

[davidhudson]

Jean Sibelius, December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957.

1949 photo by Yousuf Karsh.

[lionofchaeronea]

Jean Sibelius, Antti Favén, 1925

Happy birthday, Jean Sibelius (Dec. 8, 1865-Sept. 20, 1957).

[angeryed]

Look I made a little something for y’all ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ

[ruttotohtori]

Saan Sipelius oli suomalainen säveltäjä.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Pay no attention to what the critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic!

- Jean Sibelius

Sibelius Monument in Sibelius Park, Helsinki, Finland.

[violinconcertobracket]

Propaganda:

Sibelius:

It's Just That Good, Folks

just stuck with me ever since i heard it from the first time. once i was drawing while listening to it and the ending hit so hard that i threw my apple pencil and broke it

Both melodically and orchestration-wise, undoubtedly the greatest concerto in the repertoire. It is both lyric and intensely demanding for the soloist; for the orchestra, there is as much work to do as in a symphony. Like most of Sibelius' output it stands on its own, neither following the Romantic tradition nor entirely breaking from it. It is at once sparse and powerful, and stamped in every bar is an irresistible and eloquent intensity.

downright gorgus [sic] i saw hilary hahn play it and my soul nearly left my body. hands down best violin concerto of the romantic era (even though ik people are gonna end up voting for tchaik lol)

Vieuxtemps: None

[adreciclarte4]

Jean Sibelius, 1949 by Yousuf Karsh

[dougielombax]

Thinking about Symphony No. 2 by Jean Sibelius again.

That finale goes so fucking hard!

[classicalpianovibes]

Sibelius: pieces to listen to

In honor of Jean Sibelius' birthday (and Finland's independence day 6th Dec) I made this list of his works to listen to:

Symphony, op. 39 no. 1

Violin concerto op. 47

Tapiola, op. 112 (A symphonic poem)

Romance for violin and piano, op. 78 no. 2

The Spruce (from "The Trees") op. 75 no. 5

Etude, op. 76 no. 2

Waltz, op. 81 no. 3

Valse triste, op. 44

Finlandia, op. 26 (A symphonic poem)

Karelia suite, op. 11

Sydämeni laulu, op. 18 no. 6

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Composer Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957) is born in Finland. One of the greatest musical nationalists of the 20th Century, Sibelius remains a Finnish cultural icon who is widely recognized as one of the most important symphonists of the modern era. Sibelius’s international fame can be traced back to the tremendous success of his ever-popular tone poem "Finlandia" in 1899, and his stature only continued to grow during the next decade. His good friend Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1923) premiered his 2nd Symphony in Berlin in 1901, and noted British composer Granville Bantock (1868 - 1946) commissioned his 3rd Symphony in 1907. The justly-famous Violin Concerto (1903) also dates from this early period, although Sibelius didn’t published what are arguably his finest works -- the 5th Symphony (1919), the 6th Symphony (1923), the 7th Symphony (1924), and the tone poem "Tapiola" (1925) -- until after World War I. But then came the silence. For the last 30 years of his life, Sibelius suffered from one of the most monumental writers' blocks in musical history. He produced next to nothing, although rumors (some stoked by Sibelius himself) continued to swirl that he was preparing an 8th symphony. According to his wife, one day in the mid-1940s, the elderly Sibelius got drunk and then sat down and burned a tremendous amount of manuscript material in the fireplace at Aino. And that was that. Apparently, Sibelius found this bonfire to be "cathartic," and no substantial unpublished manuscripts were found after his death a decade later… PICTURED: A c. 1930 real photo postcard showing the middle-aged Sibelius in a rather pensive pose.

[amatesura]

Come Away, Death (from ‘Twelfth Night’) (Sibelius, Shakespeare)

Marian Anderson

Kosti Vehanen - Piano

rec. in Paris 1936

[davidhudson]

Jean Sibelius, December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957.

1948 photo Werner Bischof.

[hot-takes-and-random-things]

Classical Music of All Time tourney

Sibelius' Finlandia Stravinsky's Firebird