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From: rdp@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Sibelius - tone poems
Message-ID: <1239@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 09:42:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 09:42:07 1985
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Reply-To: rdp@teddy.UUCP (Richard D. Pierce)
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In article <392@scgvaxd.UUCP> jimmy@scgvaxd.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>What does
>anyone else think of Sibelius' works?  Please don't be too rough!
>Curious to learn.
>JR

When I was studying Baroque organ, I expressed to my teacher my fondness
of Sibelius. His comment was that Sibelius is ok, as long as you like
music searching desperately for a theme.

However...


The orchestral music of Sibelius is some of the only "modern" music (to
me that means anything written after the death of Bach!) that I take 
pleasure in listening to. His symphonies (esp the later ones) conjure
up very attractive images of quiet snowfalls in fir-tree laden Scandinavian
mountains. Neat stuff. Unfortunately, the music community in general seems
to pay token homage at best to his music. You seldom hear anything other
than the 2nd symphony, Finlandia and the Swan of Tuonela (sp?) played
by major orchestras.

I think his violin concerto, however, is crap.