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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 ...
Concertante works by Jean Sibelius (1 C, 5 P) I. Incidental music by Jean Sibelius (12 P) M. Melodramas by Jean Sibelius (3 P) O. Operas by Jean Sibelius (2 P)
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.
An example of sheet music created in Sibelius. Sibelius is a scorewriter program developed and released by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid).Beyond creating, editing and printing music scores, it can also play the music back using sampled or synthesised sounds.
This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.
The Six Songs, Op. 50, [a] is a collection of German-language art songs for vocal soloist and piano written in 1906 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. " Die stille Stadt " ("The Silent City") generally is considered the best of the set.
Sibelius originally called No. 1 Lofsången (Song of Praise). In 1915, he made transcriptions of each piece for violin and piano. In 1916, he arranged both pieces for cello and orchestra and transcribed them, too, for cello and piano. [3] [4] Each piece is dedicated to the Finnish cellist Ossian Fohström .
The Sibelius biographer Andrew Barnett notes that the Impromptu "opens in a tumultuous, scherzo-like mood" before slowing into a "brooding waltz" that in some ways anticipates Sibelius's most famous composition, Valse triste (Op. 44/1), an orchestral work that he arranged in 1904 from the incidental music to Kuolema (Death, 1903). [5]