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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)
The Six Partsongs (sometimes listed as the Six Songs; deprecated title Nine Partsongs or Nine Songs), Op. 18, is a collection of Finnish-language a cappella choral pieces written from 1893 to 1901 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
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.
The Six Humoresques, Opp. 87 and 89, [a] are concertante compositions for violin and orchestra written from 1917 to 1918 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.Despite spanning two opus numbers (due to publishing technicalities), the composer—who originally considered calling the humoresques impromptus or lyrical dances—intended them as a suite.
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 Death (Kuolema, JS 113, 1903). [5]
The Finnish pianist Erik T. Tawaststjerna made the first studio recording of the complete Six Impromptus in 1979 for BIS; of these, Nos. 3–4 were world premieres. [7] The remaining four pieces had been recorded earlier, with premieres as follows: No. 1–2 by the Swedish pianist Stig Ribbing [] on His Master's Voice (HMV 7 EBS 5, 1956); No. 6 by the German pianist Horst Minkofski-Garrigues ...
Concertante works by Jean Sibelius (1 C, 5 P) S. Symphonies by Jean Sibelius (11 P) T. Tone poems by Jean Sibelius (14 P)