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Community Rating
6.5
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Born
December 8, 1865
Died
September 20, 1957 (age 91)
Born in
Hämeenlinna, Finland
Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as his country's greatest composer and, through his music, is often credited with having helped Finland to develop a national identity during its struggle for independence from Russia. The core of his oeuvre is his set of seven symphonies, which, like his other major works, are regularly performed and recorded in his home country and internationally. His other best-known compositions are Finlandia, the Karelia Suite, Valse triste, the Violin Concerto, the choral symphony Kullervo, and The Swan of Tuonela (from the Lemminkäinen Suite). Other works include pieces inspired by nature, Nordic mythology, and the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, over a hundred songs for voice and piano, incidental music for numerous plays, the opera Jungfrun i tornet (The Maiden in the Tower), chamber music, piano music, Masonic ritual music, and 21 publications of choral music. Sibelius composed prolifically until the mid-1920s, but after completing his Seventh Symphony (1924), the incidental music for The Tempest (1926) and the tone poem Tapiola (1926), he stopped producing major works in his last thirty years, a stunning and perplexing decline commonly referred to as "The Silence of Järvenpää", the location of his home. Although he is reputed to have stopped composing, he attempted to continue writing, including abortive efforts on an eighth symphony. In later life, he wrote Masonic music and re-edited some earlier works while retaining an active but not always favourable interest in new developments in music.

Tabita Berglund and Julian Steckel
as Original Music Composer
2025

Mikko Franck @ Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2025
as Original Music Composer
2025
Memories
as Music
2025
Romanian National Youth Orchestra @ Young Euro Classic 2025
as Original Music Composer
2025

Camilla Nylund sings Sibelius Conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste
as Original Music Composer
2025

Early Riser
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Origins @ La Folle Journée de Nantes 2024
as Original Music Composer
2024
Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Alice Sara Ott
as Music
2019

Pappano e l'Accademia di Santa Cecilia: Rachmaninov-Sibelius
as Original Music Composer
2018

Notre Musique
as Music
2004

Red On Red
as Music
1990
Valse triste
as Music
1980

Allegro non troppo
as Music
1976

Enigma for Demons
as Music
1975

Red Sun
as Original Music Composer
1970

Through Icy Haze
as Music
1965

Teresa
as Music
1961
Jean Sibelius At Home
as Music
1961

Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 8: Franck, Sibelius, Debussy and Rossini
as Original Music Composer
1952
In the Year 2000
as Music
1950