Jean Sibelius: Six Pieces Op.79 No.5 - Dance-Idylle: Violin: Instrumental Work

SKU: HL.14030010

ISBN 9788759852323. English.

A tremendous work for Solo Piano dating from 1916. This is number 10 in his set of 13 Pieces. Jean Sibelius' 13 Morceaux Op.76 were all composed between 1911 and 1919, and form a fantastic set of pieces that contains much variation in tempo, mood and character.

SKU: HL.14030030

ISBN 9788759855188. 8.25x11.75x0.068 inches. French.

Work for Violin and Piano dating from 1917.

SKU: BR.EB-3201

ISBN 9790004161609. 9 x 12 inches.

Some of the Ten Piano Pieces op. 58 were already successfully performed during the composers lifetime. At a concert in the Solemnity Hall of Helsinki University on 10 October 1911, two of the pieces (Scherzino No. 2, Serenade No. 9) had to be repeated because of the roar of applause.. Both Sibelius and Mrs. Sigrid Sundgren-Schneevoigt were called forth with storming applause. The reviews were good, describing the pieces as the most ingenious piano compositions reduced to a small form, that have been published in Finland.

SKU: BR.PB-5576

ISBN 9790004213865. 6.5 x 9 inches.

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkainen, and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all four movements en suite through the complete edition of Jean Sibelius Works only in 2013.In summer 1894 Sibelius went to Central Europe, carrying among others a plan for an opera freely based on the Kalevala in his mind. But during this trip he reassessed his composing: I think I have found my old self again, musically speaking. I think I really am a tone painter and a poet. As a result he abandoned his opera plans, but musical parts may have found their way into the Lemminkainen pieces which he started composing during that time. Definitely the overture had, it is now known and loved as The Swan of Tuonela.Lemminkainen became popular from the beginning and has attained a fixed position in the concert repertoire.On Lemminkainen and the Maidens on the Island a critic opined: We do not hesitate to award this tone painting of Lemminkainen's erotic emotional world the first prize among all the young composer's works. Sibelius himself said about Lemminkainen in Tuonela: The cradle song at the end of the work is maternal love, which rakes the pieces of Lemminkainen together from the River Tuonela. and commented on Lemminkainen's Return: I would like to see more pride in us Finns. Why should we be ashamed? This is the underlying thought in Lemminkainen's Return. Lemminkainen is just as good as the noblest of earls. He is an aristocrat, without question an aristocrat!.