LEADER 07143cam 2200361I 4500001 ocm00896231 005 20141212120541.0 008 740528_1938_______ ____ __eng u 010 38027021 035 (Sirsi) o00896231 035 (OCoLC)896231 040 |cKSU |dERE |dm.c. |dUtOrBLW 041 1 engfin 049 EREM 050 00 ML410.S54 |bE44 100 1 Ekman, Karl, |d1895-1962. |=^A58473 240 10 Jean Sibelius, en konstnärs liv och personlighet. |lEnglish |=^A58473 245 10 Jean Sibelius, his life and personality / |cby Karl Ekman ; translated from the Finnish by Edward Birse ; with a foreword by Ernest Newman. 260 New York : |bAlfred A. Knopf, |c1938. 300 xxiii, 298, x pages : |bfrontispiece, illustrations (facsimiles, including music) portraits ; |c23 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 500 First published in Finland under the title: Jean Sibelius, en konstnärs liv och personlighet. 504 List of Jean Sibelius's works: pages 267-296. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-298) and index. 505 00 |gParentage. |gParentage ; |gDescent ; |gThe death of his father ; |gHis mother ; |gHis female relatives ; |tPehr Sibelius in Abo ; |tJean Sibelius the master mariner -- |gA happy childhood. |gTavastehus in the 1870s ; |tThe Russian Element ; |gA country town devoted to music ; |gJanne's first steps in composition ; |gSchooldays ; |gStories of a friend of his childhood ; |gA dreamer and lover of nature -- |gThe power of music. |gJanne starts learning the violin seriously ; |gThe three children ; |gJanne teaches himself theory ; |gFresh musical influences ; |gNature as the young composer's teacher ; |gMatriculation -- |tHelsingfors. |tJean Sibelius, student of law ; |gSpecial student at the musical academy ; |gLegal studies abandoned ; |gDreams of virtuosity ; |gAn eccentric musical adept ; |tContemporary light on young Sibelius -- |gPupil at the musical academy. |tMartin Wegelius ; |gMaster and pupil ; |gThe double life of a budding composer ; |gFirst appearance as a composer ; |gEnd of the years of study in Finland -- |gLife in Helsingfors. |gHelsingfors in the '80s ; |tAlbert Edelfelt ; |tZachris Topelius ; |tFerruccio Busoni ; |tIntroduction to Jarnefelt's family ; |gThe last summer in Lovisa before going abroad -- |gIn the outer world. |gOff to Berlin ; |gThe German capital in the '80s ; |gNothing new produced in music ; |tAlbert Becker, an orthodox master ; |tHans von Bulow, Richard Strauss, Joseph Joachim ; |tThe quintet in G minor -- |gTwenty-four. |gNorwegian friends ; |gFriends from Finland ; |gAn inspired hour ; |gChristmas eve, 1898 ; |gMusician friends ; |tFirst meeting with Robert Kajanus ; |tThe Kalevala as a musical subject ; |tIda Aalberg acts with Joseph Kainz ; |gA visit to Finland ; |gEngaged ; |gOut into the world again -- |gThe last winter of study. |tThe struggle between Wagnerians and Brahmsians ; |tJohannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Hans Richter ; |tSibelius and Karl Goldmark ; |tThe overture in E major ; |tSibelius's first Runeberg songs ; |tA Ballet scene for orchestra ; |gFirst drafts of the Kullervo symphony -- |gArtists' life in Vienna. |gOld Vienna ; |gThe power of musical traditions ; |tJohann Strauss ; |gLife among musicians ; |tMember of an anti-Wagner orchestra ; |gA curious order ; |tPauline Lucca's receptions ; |tPauline Lucca and Adelina Patti -- |gHome again. |gInspiring surroundings ; |tThe Paivalehti circle ; |tKarl August Tavaststjerna ; |tAxel Gallen ; |tThe advent of Kullervo ; |gThe concert on April 28, 1892 ; |gMarriage ; |gA honeymoon in Karelia ; |gPoet friends in Kuopio ; |tMinna Canth ; |gIntensive work -- |gProductive years. |tTeacher at the musical academy and orchestral school ; |gA legend ; |gAn oprea that never saw the light ; |gKarelian music ; |tVarsang (spring song) ; |gOff to Italy ; |gA visit to Bayreuth -- |gComposer and teacher. |tSibelius's second Kalevala hero takes shape ; |tThe Maid in the Tower, Sibelius's only opera ; |tThe coronation cantata in 1896 ; |gSibelius is able to restrict his teaching ; |tPupil's opinion of Sibelius as a teacher -- |gThe end of a century. |tThe King Christian suite ; |gA journey to Berlin ; |tSibelius finds his first foreign publishers ; |tSibelius's first symphony ; |tBeginning of the Bobrikoff regime ; |tThe Song of the Athenians ; |g"Press celebrations" ; |tFinlandia ; |gOff to the world exhibition in Paris -- |gThe years of collecting. |gAn important stay in Berlin ; |gIn Italy ; |tMeeting with Anton Dvorak ; |gMusical festival in Heidelberg ; |tSibelius as a conductor ; |tThe second symphony ; |tThe Origin of Fire ; |gBax in Berlin ; |tFelix Weingartner -- |gThe years of change. |gThe summer of 1902 ; |tValse Triste composed ; |tThe violin concerto ; |tWilhelm Stenhammar ; |gAn internal crisis ; |gSibelius decides to leave Helsingfors ; |gThe feeling in the spring of 1904 ; |gThe home in Jarvenpaa completed -- |gConquests in Europe. |tThe Busoni concert in Berlin ; |tToscanini ; |tThe death of Albert Edelfelt ; |tSibelius's first visit to England ; |gParis ; |tThe death of Martin Wegelius -- |gEventful years. |tThe third symphony ; |tGustav Mahler in Helsingfors ; |tSvanevit (Swanwhite) ; |gSecond visit to London ; |tMiss Mary Wakefield ; |gReception in Oxford ; |gOperation in Berlin ; |tVoces Intimae ; |gBack in London ; |gJourney to Koli ; |tNight-ride and Sunrise -- |gTowards clarity and perfection. |tThe composing of the fourth symphony ; |gStorm clouds in the East ; |gThe concert on April 3, 1911 ; |gIn Berlin and Paris ; |tOffer of a professorship in Vienna ; |gConcert tour in England ; |gInvitation to America -- |gThe new world. |gAwarded the degree of doctor at Alexander University in Helsingfors ; |gSibelius goes aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II ; |gThe voyage across the Atlantic ; |gArrival in New York ; |gMusical festival in Norfolk ; |gLitchfield choral union society ; |gBanquet in Boston ; |gBy car to Niagara ; |gAward of degree at Yale University ; |gThe return journey on the President Grant ; |gNews of the Sarajevo murder ; |gA concert that did not come off -- |gThe great war. |gHome once more ; |gWhims and plans ; |gThe first months of the war ; |gMinor compositions ; |tThe fifth symphony ; |tSibelius on the nature of composition ; |gOutbreak of the revolution -- |gIn the power of the reds. |gCivil war breaks out ; |gThe doings of the reds in Jarvenpaa ; |gA house search ; |gSibelius succeeds in moving to Helsingfors ; |gThe approach of the Germans ; |gThe relief of Helsingfors -- |gOn the heights. |gCreative power ; |tThree symphonies planned ; |gConcert tours ; |tLast meeting with Busoni ; |gSibelius's sixtieth birthday ; |gA world-wide celebrity ; |gThe guiding lane in Sibelius's life ; |tSibelius on contemporary music ; |gConclusion. 600 10 Sibelius, Jean, |d1865-1957. |=^A39068 700 1 Birse, Edward, |etranslator. |=^A1211247 919 BOOK 596 3 998 58494