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Okeaniden,
Tapiola. Composed by
Jean Sibelius. Edited by
Kari Kilpelainen. Linen.
Complete Works.
The
American tone poems
Late-romantic; Early
modern. Complete Works.
228 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #SON 620.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.SON-620).
ISBN 9790004803226. 10
x 12.5 inches.
Jean
Sibelius wrote his last
two tone poems
Aallottaret op. 73 and
Tapiola op. 112 as
commissions for the
United States.
Aallottaret is the
original Finnish title of
op. 73, as is found on
the autograph. Discreetly
concealed behind this
title, however, is the
title The Oceanides,
which also stems from
Sibelius, and which
Breitkopf & Hartel gladly
placed in first position
for the first edition of
1915, thus facilitating
the diffusion of the
work. The previously
unpublished early version
of Aallottaret is also
presented in the volume
of the Complete Edition;
it had been hastily
rejected shortly before
the world premiere.
Compared with this
genesis, the origin of
Tapiola , Sibelius last
great symphonic poem, is
relatively unspectacular:
though he was under
pressure to write and
publish the work,
Sibelius produced no
different versions. There
was only one printed
edition from Breitkopf
and no further revisions.
Thanks are given to
Professor Nors S.
Josephson for his
valuable work on this
volume, the editing of
which he began.
