Sibelius Volume Ii 1904 1914

Author : Erik Tawaststjerna
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571309445
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sibelius Volume II: 1904-1914 written by Erik Tawaststjerna and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erik Tawaststjerna embarked on his monumental and acclaimed study of Jean Sibelius's life and music in 1960 and it occupied him for over a quarter of a century. His study differs from other work on the composer in one important respect: he had unrestricted access to the composer's papers, diaries and letters as well as the advantage of numerous conversations with the composer's widow and other members of the family. Thus his researches can justifiably claim to have thrown entirely fresh light on the great Finnish composer. Far from the remote personality of the Sibelius legend, Sibelius emerges as a highly colourful figure. This second volume covers the crucial period from 1904 and the beginning of the Third Symphony through to the outbreak of the First World War ten years later. During this period Sibelius began keeping a diary which, together with his letters to his wife, Aino, and to his friend, Axel Carpelan, helped the author give us a day-by-day, intimate account of the turbulent years that saw the gestation and completion of many of his finest works, culminating in the Fourth Symphony. Translated by Robert Layton, himself a Sibelius specialist, this is a compelling and insightful account of the music of one of the twentieth century's greatest composers.

Author : Erik Tawaststjerna
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520058699
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sibelius-v Ii written by Erik Tawaststjerna and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erik Tawaststjerna
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ISBN 13 : 9780052058693
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Download or read book Sibelius: 1904-1914 written by Erik Tawaststjerna and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erik Tawaststjerna
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571287182
Total Pages : 330 pages
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Download or read book Sibelius Volume III: 1914-1957 written by Erik Tawaststjerna and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erik Tawaststjerna embarked on his monumental and acclaimed study of Jean Sibelius's life and music in 1960 and it occupied him for over a quarter of a century. His study differs from other work on the composer in one important respect: he had unrestricted access to the composer's papers, diaries and letters as well as the advantage of numerous conversations with the composer's widow and other members of the family. Thus his researches can justifiably claim to have thrown entirely fresh light on the great Finnish composer. Far from the remote personality of the Sibelius legend, Sibelius emerges as a highly colourful figure. This third volume traces the composer's career from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, which found him poised on the brink of the Fifth Symphony, through to his death in 1957. It traces the genesis of the Fifth Symphony and gives a vivid portrait of Finland during the early years of independence and civil war. Tawaststjerna relates in fascinating detail the composer's financial plight during these years and his struggles with his own psyche. We follow his career through to the Seventh Symphony and Tapiola, and the increasingly corrosive streak of self-criticism which blighted Sibelius's last years and resulted in the destruction of the Eighth Symphony. Translated by Robert Layton, himself a Sibelius specialist, this is a compelling and insightful account of the music of one of the twentieth century's greatest composers.

Author : Daniel M. Grimley
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789144663
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean Sibelius written by Daniel M. Grimley and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating investigation into the interdisciplinary impact of the beloved modern classical composer. Few composers have enjoyed such critical acclaim—or longevity—as Jean Sibelius, who died in 1957 aged ninety-one. Always more than simply a Finnish national figure, an “apparition from the woods” as he ironically described himself, Sibelius’s life spanned turbulent and tumultuous events, and his work is central to the story of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century music. This book situates Sibelius within a rich interdisciplinary environment, paying attention to his relationship with architecture, literature, politics, and the visual arts. Drawing on the latest developments in Sibelius research, it is intended as an accessible and rewarding introduction for the general reader, and it also offers a fresh and provocative interpretation for those more familiar with his music.

Author : Daniel M. Grimley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521894609
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius written by Daniel M. Grimley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Tim Howell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754651772
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Sibelius written by Tim Howell and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seemingly disproportionate creative energy from the small country of Finland defies prevalent trends in the production of classical music. Tim Howell provides an engaging investigation into Finnish music and combines elements of composer biography and

Author : Erik Tawaststjerna
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571287174
Total Pages : 390 pages
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Download or read book Sibelius Volume I: 1865-1905 written by Erik Tawaststjerna and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erik Tawaststjerna embarked on his authoritative study of Sibelius in 1960, and it occupied him for over a quarter of a century. His book differs from other work on the composer in one important respect: he had unrestricted access to the composer's papers, diaries and letters as well as the advantage of numerous conversations with the composer's widow and other members of the family. Thus his researches can justifiably claim to have thrown entirely fresh light on the great Finnish composer. Far from the remote personality of the Sibelius legend, Sibelius emerges as a highly colourful figure. Translated by Robert Layton, himself a Sibelius specialist, this first volume (the first of three) takes us up to the period of the Second Symphony and the Violin Concerto, with perceptive and searching studies of the music including a number of early works, The Burning of the Boat, the Kullervo Symphony and the two versions of En Saga.'A remarkable and deeply impressive book. The English text unquestionably succeeds in giving a subtle and scholarly rendering of a profound study of Sibelius and his music.' Economist

Author : Tim Howell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351577301
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Sibelius: Studies in Finnish Music written by Tim Howell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last twenty years, the rest of the world has come to focus on the music of Finland. The seemingly disproportionate creative energy from this small country defies prevalent trends in the production of classical music. Tim Howell provides an engaging investigation into Finnish music and combines elements of composer biography and detailed analysis within the broader context of cultural and national identity. The book consists of a collection of eight individual composer studies that investigate the historical position and compositional characteristics of a representative selection of leading figures, ranging from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. These potentially self-contained studies subscribe to a larger picture, which explains the Sibelian legacy, the effect of this considerable influence on subsequent generations and its lasting consequences: an internationally acclaimed school of contemporary music. Outlining a particular perspective on modernism, Howell provides a careful balance between biographical and analytical concerns to allow the work to be accessible to the non-specialist. Each composer study offers a sense of overview followed by progressively more detail. Close readings of selected orchestral works provide a focus, while the structure of each analysis accommodates the different levels of engagement expected by a wide readership. The composers under consideration are Aarre Merikanto, Erik Bergman, Joonas Kokkonen, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Aulis Sallinen, Paavo Heininen, Kaija Saariaho and Magnus Lindberg. The concluding discussion of issues of national distinctiveness and the whole phenomenon of why such a small nation is compositionally so active, is of wide-ranging significance. Drawing together various strands to emerge from these individual personalities, Howell explores the Finnish attitude to new music, in both its composition and reception, uncovering an enlightened view of the value of creativity from which

Author : Tina K. Ramnarine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190611561
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto written by Tina K. Ramnarine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto is the story of Sibelius as performer and composer, of violin performing traditions, of histories of musical transmission, and of virtuosity itself. It investigates the history and legacy of one of the most recorded concertos in the violin repertoire. Sibelius, a celebrated and influential composer of the late 19th and 20th centuries, was an accomplished violinist, whose enduring interest in the instrument has been paralleled by the broad success of the only concerto in his oeuvre: his violin concerto (premiered in 1904 and revised in 1905). Considering how violinists engage with the work, author Tina K. Ramnarine discusses technology's central role in the concerto's transmission from Jascha Heifetz's seminal 1935 recording to contemporary online performances, gender issues in violin solo careers, and nature-based musical aesthetics that lead to thinking about the ecology of virtuosity in an era of environmental crisis. Beginning with Sibelius's early training as a violinist and his aspirations as a performer, Ramnarine traces the dramatic historical context of the violin concerto. It was composed as Finland underwent a period of heightened self-determination, nationalism, and protest against Russian imperial policies, and it heralded intense political dynamics relating to Europe's East-West border that have extended to the present. This story of the violin concerto points to the notion of Sibelius - and the virtuoso more generally - as a political figure.