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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.
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 ...
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.
The Five Pieces (in French: Cinq Morceaux), [2] Op. 75, is a collection of compositions for piano written in 1914 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.The Five Pieces, however, is more commonly referred to by its informal nickname The Trees due to the fact that the descriptive titles of the five pieces share a thematic link.
The Language of the Birds (in German: Die Sprache der Vögel), JS 62, is a theatre score for orchestra written in 1911 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.The music comprises just a single number: the "Wedding March" (in Finnish: "Häämarssi") to accompany a festive scene in Act III.
The Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104, is a four-movement work for orchestra written from 1914 to 1923 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.. Although the score does not contain a key attribution, the symphony is usually described as being in D minor; much of it is in fact in the (modern) Dorian mode, a scale that corresponds to a scale on the white keys on a piano starting on the note D. [4 ...
Sibelius composed the Andantino in F major (the only of the Ten Pieces to be called by its tempo marking) in 1899. In 9 4 time, it has a duration of about three minutes, and was first published in 1899 by Wasenius. [18] Afterwards, however, Sibelius revised the piece c. 1899, which necessitated a superseding edition by Wasenius in 1900. [19]
Finlandia, Op. 26, is a tone poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.It was written in 1899 and revised in 1900. The piece was composed for the Press Celebrations of 1899, a covert protest against increasing censorship from the Russian Empire, and was the last of seven pieces performed as an accompaniment to a tableau depicting episodes from Finnish history. [6]