He mystified his Finnish countrymen with an unstoppable flow of compositions. He was also, one journalist said, “an alarming person to interview.” By Adam Nossiter As the orchestra searches for a new ...

Composer Jean Sibelius is a hero to all Finns, most Englishmen and many Americans. His music is heavy enough to sound profound—something like the work of a rural and obstinate Brahms. It seemed ...

(6) Impromptus, Movements: No 2 Folke Gräsbeck, Piano Jean Sibelius, Composer (6) Impromptus, Movements: No 5 Folke Gräsbeck, Piano Jean Sibelius, Composer (10) Pieces, Movements: No. 3, Caprice Jean ...

Learning to read Finnish in school enabled Jean Sibelius to appreciate the great Finnish epic known as the Kalevala. The stories stayed with him from his youth, and as an adult he wrote a set of four ...

Join Boston University music professor Jeremy Yudkin as he previews the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Aug. 17 program at Tanglewood. The concert opens with "Threnody: In Memory of Jean Sibelius" by ...

This week, Kate Molleson traces the development of Jean Sibelius’s symphonies. Set against Finland’s changing political climate and Sibelius’s own, turbulent personal circumstances, the podcast ...

Pelleas and Melisande was such a poignant story that four different composers set it to music. Faure, Debussy, and Schoenberg all made settings of the story, and so did Jean Sibelius. Sibelius wrote ...

As the orchestra searches for a new music director, Susanna Mälkki was given the distinction of leading it at Carnegie Hall. By Zachary Woolfe Alec Baldwin chooses Tchaikovsky. Darryl Pinckney picks ...

Master composer Jean Sibelius turned 80 on December 8, 1945. He was not an easy case for filmmakers, as his world had long been closed to outsiders. He was associated with prestige, age and respect.