Years before completing it, Jean Sibelius had thought to compose his Seventh Symphony in three movements. But the single movement work he finished in 1924 was structurally so different from a standard ...

As Finnish composer Jean Sibelius was writing his First Symphony in the late 1890s, Russia took steps to limit Finland's autonomy and absorb it into its Empire. Completed in 1899 about the time the ...

On March 25, 2022, Decca Classics will release Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä's debut album Sibelius, a complete cycle of Jean Sibelius' symphonies, plus the tone poem Tapiola and 3 Late Fragments.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Swirling Romantics Concert program includes Jean Sibelius' Symphony No.2 and ...