JEAN SIBELIUS

5 articles related to JEAN SIBELIUS:

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  ORCHESTRA

  Valse triste: why wasn't Sibelius' famous piece performed on his 150th birthday?

  Valse triste or Sad Waltz is a short orchestral composition written by Jean Sibelius in 1903 for Kuolema, a drama by the...
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  Nature Sounds

  8 orchestral pieces depicting thunderstorms

  Of all the meteorological phenomena, thunderstorms are perhaps one of the most imposing forces of nature, so it is not...
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  ORCHESTRA

  The Oceanides: the deeply impressionistic tone poem by Sibelius

  The magnificent mythology of ancient Greece describes the Oceanids as water nymphs whose life and functions are...
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  ORCHESTRA

  The attractive sounds of Nordic Romanticism of Wilhelm Stenhammar

  Swedish pianist Wilhelm Stenhammar was one of the few composers who remained faithful to the ideas of Romanticism in the...
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  ORCHESTRA

  Famous Sibelius piece was commissioned for a plywood mill anniversary

  Jean Sibelius originally wrote Andante Festivo for a string quartet which was later made all the more luscious when he...