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Jean Sibelius (1665-1957)
9 Andante Festivo
Jean Sibelius can certainly be called Finland's greatest composer. He was born in 1865 in Hämeenlinna and after graduating from the secondary school in 1885 he went to Helsinki to study at the Music Academy. His main study subjects were theory and violin. Theory was lectured by Martin Wegelius and because Sibelius had ambitions to become a violinist, he studied violin with the Hungarian born violinist Csillágin. Near the end of his study in 1889 he spend two years in Berlin with theorist Albert Becker and later in Vienna under Karl Goldmark and Hans Richter, the latter being a famous orchestrator from Germany.
Back in Helsinki (1891) Sibelius had his first great success as a composer with his choral symphony Kullervo. Other important symphonic works by Sibelius are the Karelia suite, the magnificent Finlandia, the seven symphonies and his beautiful Violin concerto.
In 1892 he married Aino Järnefelt and in 1904 both moved to Järvenpää, a town in the south of Finland. Jean Sibelius died there in 1957. Sibelius composed his Andante festivo originally for string quartet and later arranged it for string orchestra (with timpani ad libitum). The work has a broad, almost to say religious character, that especially in the melody line refers to the solemn and strict polyphonic music style by the Roman school, of for instance Giovanni da Palestrina (±1525-1594).

© Alex Timmerman.

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