3 Ergebnisse.

With unrestricted access to Sibeius' papers, diaries and letters, this first volume takes us up to the period of the "Second Symphony" and the "Violin Concerto", with perceptive and searching studies of the music including a number of early works, "The Burning of the Boat", the "Kullervo Symphony" and the two versions of "En Saga".

With access to Sibelius' papers, diaries and letters, this third volume traces his career from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, which found him poised on the brink of the Fifth Symphony, through to his death in 1957. It relates in detail the composer's financial plight during these years and his struggles with his own psyche.

A study of Jean Sibelius' life and music. It covers the period from 1904 and the beginning of the Third Symphony through to the outbreak of the First World War. During this period Sibelius began keeping a diary which, helped the author give us a day-by-day, account of the years that saw the gestation and completion of the "Fourth Symphony".