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The monument weighs 24 tonnes (24 long tons; 26 short tons) and measures 8.5 by 10.5 by 6.5 metres (28 ft × 34 ft × 21 ft). Hiltunen's aim was to capture the essence of the music of Sibelius. A smaller version of the monument, Homage to Sibelius , is located at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris . [ 3 ]
Sibelius monument (Sibelius-monumentti) 1967: The Sibelius Monument by Eila Hiltunen is dedicated to the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957). The monument is located at the Sibelius Park in the district of Töölö. Three Smiths Statue (Kolmen sepän patsas) 1932
Temppeliaukio Church (Finnish: Temppeliaukion kirkko, Swedish: Tempelplatsens kyrka) is a Lutheran church in the Töölö neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland.The church was designed by architects and brothers Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen and opened in 1969.
The Sibelius Museum (Finnish: Sibelius-museo, Swedish: Sibeliusmuseum) [1] is a museum of music, named after the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The museum is located close to Turku Cathedral in the historical city centre of Turku on the southwest coast of Finland. It is the only museum devoted to music in Finland. [2]
Sibelius, in a move intended to reclaim sole artistic ownership of The Bells of Kallio Church, arranged the piece for solo piano a few days after the consecration; on 13 September, he supplanted Klemetti's arrangement with his own for mixed choir a cappella. [2] Sibelius sold both arrangements in October to the Leipzig-based music publisher ...
Uspenski Cathedral (Finnish: Uspenskin katedraali, Swedish: Uspenskijkatedralen) [2] is a Eastern Orthodox [3] cathedral in Helsinki, Finland, and main cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Finland, dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos (the Virgin Mary). Its name comes from the Old Church Slavonic word uspenie, which denotes the Dormition ...
Sibelius photographed in 1891, Vienna. Karelia Suite, Op. 11 is a subset of pieces from the longer Karelia Music (named after the region of Karelia) written by Jean Sibelius in 1893 for the Viipuri Students' Association and premiered, with Sibelius conducting, at the Imperial Alexander University in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, on 23 November of that year.
The piece, which is a setting of Runo XLIII (lines 385–434) of the Kalevala, Finland's national epic, is chronologically the final of Sibelius's nine orchestral cantatas; in particular, it belongs to the series of four "little known, but beautiful" [3] cantatas from the composer's mature period that also includes My Own Land (Op. 92, 1918 ...