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Aino Sibelius (née Järnefelt; 10 August 1871 – 8 June 1969) was the wife of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. They lived most of their 65 years of marriage at their home Ainola near Lake Tuusula, Järvenpää , Finland.
Jean Sibelius and wife Aino read in Ainola's dining room In November 1903, Sibelius began to build his new home Ainola (Aino's Place) near Lake Tuusula some 45 km (30 miles) north of Helsinki. To cover the construction costs, he gave concerts in Helsinki, Turku and Vaasa in early 1904 as well as in Tallinn, Estonia, and in Latvia during the summer.
Daily life in Ainola was documented by Sibelius's private secretary Santeri Levas in the 1945 photographic book Jean Sibelius and His Home. Buildings around Ainola include a sauna building and a shed. Sibelius died in Ainola on September 20, 1957. His wife Aino lived in Ainola for the next twelve years until she died on June 8, 1969.
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 ...
Sibelius's brother-in-law, the Finnish playwright Arvid Järnefelt, [a] had just lost his infant daughter, Anna (1898 – 1899) on 28 December, and as such, Aino Sibelius (née Järnefelt) traveled to Lohja to assist the Järnefelts as they mourned; Sibelius and the couple's three daughters—Eva, Ruth , and Kirsti—remained in Helsinki ...
The Ten Pieces (in Finnish: Kymmenen kappaletta; in German: Zehn Stücke), [2] Op. 24, is a collection of compositions for piano written by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius around the turn of the twentieth century, variously from 1895 to 1903.
Jean Sibelius was born in 1865 in Finland, since 1809 an autonomous grand duchy within the Russian Empire having earlier been under Swedish control for many centuries. [1] The country remained divided between a culturally dominant Swedish-speaking minority, to which the Sibelius family belonged, and a more nationalistically-minded Finnish ...
Their children were Kasper , Arvid, Erik, Ellida, Ellen, Armas, Aino, Hilja and Sigrid. Armas, Arvid and Erik were famous Finnish cultural figures. Daughter Aino Järnefelt was married to composer Jean Sibelius. Elisabeth Järnefelt was also a good friend of the writer Juhani Aho. Her marriage was not a happy one.