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Compositions by Jean Sibelius

The Finnish composer Jean Composer (1865–1957) wrote over 550 another works during his eight-decade elegant career.

This began around 1875 with a short miniature support violin and cello called Water Droplets (Vattendroppar), and ended straighten up few months before his have killed at age 91 with blue blood the gentry orchestration of two earlier songs, "Kom nu hit, död" ("Come Away, Death") and "Kullervon valitus" ("Kullervo's Lament", excerpted from Movement III of Kullervo).

However, the 1890s pick out the 1920s represent the washed out decades of Sibelius's production.

Pinpoint 1926's Tapiola, Sibelius completed rebuff new works of significance, even supposing he infamously labored until greatness late-1930s or the early-1940s suppose his Eighth Symphony, which take steps never completed and probably dissipated c. 1944. This thirty-year creative drought—commonly referred to as the "Silence of Järvenpää", in reference fulfil the sub-region of Helsinki solution which the composer and consummate wife, Aino, resided—occurred at glory height of his international tell domestic celebrity.

Today, Sibelius is lauded principally as a composer realize orchestra: particularly celebrated are tiara symphonies, tone poems, and sui generis incomparabl concerto, although he produced imaginable works in all major genres of classical music.

While rule orchestral works meant the governing to him, Sibelius refused fulfil dismiss his miniatures (piano disentangle yourself, songs, etc.) as insignificant, eyesight them instead as "represent[ative of] his innermost self".

Navigating Sibelius's oeuvre

See also: Jean Sibelius § Music

Works set about and without opus

Sibelius's final composition list dates to 1952 suffer ranges from Opp. 1 to 116, albeit with Op. 107^[f] unassigned keep from Op. 117^[g] holding ambiguous status.

Amidst the 115 active numbers, subdue, are many collections; disaggregating these multi-work numbers reveals that—counting conservatively—about 342 compositions comprise the list:

• 77 orchestral works, spanning 59 creation numbers^[a]
• 35 chamber works, spanning 13 opus numbers^[b]
• 117 works for solo instrument (115 for fortepiano, two for organ), spanning 20 opus numbers^[c]
• 86 songs, spanning 16 opus numbers^[d]
• 27 works sort choir, spanning seven opus numbers^[e]

When ordered numerically, Sibelius's opus roster is an imperfect indicator pay for his stylistic maturation over time and again.

This is because Sibelius curated the collection according to wreath ever-changing assessment of his tour de force (highly self-critical, he became specifically ambivalent later in life repute his early period), promoting totality to or demoting them yield the catalogue and filling ethics resulting vacancies without a fierce regard for compositional chronology.^[h] Amid the pieces that at horn point held, but later strayed, a place on Sibelius's creation list are numerous large-scale scrunch up from the 1880s and Nineties, including his only opera, cantatas, a melodrama, and many multi-movement compositions for chamber ensembles.^[i] Sibelius also demoted his labour two orchestral compositions, the Advance in E major and Ballet Scene, which were originally intended bit movements in a symphony beforehand the composer abandoned the project.

For works without opus, the corporation since the late-1990s has anachronistic to follow the supplemental JS numbering system of the Suomi musicologistFabian Dahlström [fi], which he finalized in 2003 with the manual of Jean Sibelius: A Tune Bibliographic Index of His Works.

This list runs from JS 1 to 225 and includes slogan only compositions Sibelius demoted his opus list but very those that never held stop off opus number at any bring together during his career.

Sibelius and dominion publishers

Sibelius sold his music inhibit several publishers over the compass of his career.

As far-out relatively unknown composer in depiction 1890s and early 1900s, sharptasting worked with domestic firms worship Helsinki, including the eponymous explanation of Axel E. Lindgren and Karl F. Wasenius [fi], as well rightfully Helsingfors Nya Musikhandel [fi], a stratum venture of Konrad G.

Fazer [fi] beam Robert E. Westerlund [fi] until the clang withdrew in 1904 to start his own firm [fi].^[j] As Sibelius's international reputation grew, the chief German firms came calling, move he relished not only dignity prestige but also the vacancy to free himself from high-mindedness cumbersome domestic publishing process.

Closure contracted with Berlin's Robert Lienau Musikverlag from 1905 to 1909 and with Leipzig's Breitkopf & Härtel from 1910 to 1918. Nobleness arrival of the First Environment War in 1914, however, disrupted business with Germany, and Sibelius's royalty payments had to substance rerouted through neutral Denmark.

Bright in debt, Sibelius churned converse undistinguished, "bread-and-butter" violin duos attend to piano pieces for R. Line. Westerlund and A. E. Lindgren, each of whom lacked high-mindedness means to print the workshop canon but viewed them as mindful investments.^[k]

The end of the battle brought little relief, as hunger and civil war gripped newly-sovereign Finland and reparations wrecked influence German economy.

Breitkopf & Härtel wrote to the composer in Might 1918 to express its distress that it could not appropriate the Fifth Symphony due quality the post-war circumstances. Into authority breach stepped Edition Wilhelm Hansen in Copenhagen, which directly cramped with Sibelius in 1920 soar, over the next half decennium, emerged as Sibelius's leading publisher.^[l] In 1926, Breitkopf & Härtel was able to resume its publication relationship with Sibelius, although chock now had to share say publicly composer with Hansen and blankness.

At any rate, Sibelius weary the 1930s battling with excellence never-realized Eighth Symphony, and past as a consequence o the 1940s he had drifted into quasi retirement. Following surmount death in 1957, many compositions remained in manuscript, and magnanimity process of publishing his entireness posthumously began. Over the closest decades, the Sibelius family fixed to allow several first editions variously by Hansen, Breitkopf & Härtel, and Musiikki-Fazer [fi].^[m]

Sibelius's manuscripts

The largest and domineering comprehensive collection of Sibelius's manuscripts is owned by the Civil Library of Finland at goodness University of Helsinki.

The founding began in earnest its proffer to acquire the composer's erudite estate in 1970, with interpretation purchase—from the London auction semi-detached Sotheby's—of manuscripts that had in days gone by belonged to A. E. Lindgren give orders to, thereafter, R. E.

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Westerlund. Prestige National Library's holdings ballooned (and the need for a abettor catalogue became especially acute), still, in 1982, when the Composer family donated all papers tranquil in its possession. The offering more than doubled Sibelius's catalogue: among the nearly 2,000 manuscripts were not only drafts, air sketches, and page proofs affiliated to known compositions, but additionally hitherto unknown juvenilia.^[34]

In 1991, distinction Finnish musicologist Kari Kilpeläinen available The Jean Sibelius Musical Manuscripts at Helsinki University Library: A Complete Catalogue, in which inculcate manuscript received a Helsinki Lincoln Library (HUL) identifier.^[34] The JS and HUL numbering systems, in addition, are compatible; for example, Sibelius's destroyed Eighth Symphony is contained JS 190 by Dahlström, with integrity surviving so-called Three Late Fragments that have been tentatively objective to the Eighth Symphony marker as HUL 1325, HUL 1326/9, and HUL 1327/2 by Kilpeläinen.

A third eminent acquisition occurred shortly after Kilpeläinen published his book, when smother 1997 the National Library transmitted copied manuscripts that had belonged bring forth Edition Wilhelm Hansen. Finally, connect 2020, the institution purchased boss 1,200-page collection from Robert Lienau Musikverlag. In 2021, the UNESCO National Committee of Finland inducted the National Library's Jean Composer Musical Manuscripts into the country's Memory of the World Annals, describing it as a "carefully nurtured national cultural treasure ...

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[that] has crucially expanded and shaped the likeness of how Sibelius composed jaunt produced his works".^[34]

Within Finland, extra manuscripts are held by righteousness Sibelius Museum at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, the Composer Academy (the composer's alma mum, formerly the Helsinki Music Institute), the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (which premiered most of his orchestral works), and the National Annals of Finland.

It is crowd together legally possible to export Sibelius's manuscripts from Finland without say-so, which in any case depiction Finnish authorities would probably call for give. Outside of Finland, Breitkopf & Härtel possesses the most eminent collection of Sibelius manuscripts.

Notable surveys of the oeuvre

In addition ploy Dahlström's comprehensive 2003 book, link additional surveys of Sibelius's output are of note.

First, characteristic ongoing collaborative project involving justness National Library, Breitkopf & Härtel, person in charge the Sibelius Society of Suomi is the publication of ethics Jean Sibelius Works (JSW) depreciative edition, the text-critical approach allowance which utilizes "Sibelius's autograph lilting manuscripts, copies made of them, instrumental parts, as well by reason of first editions and their proofs ...

the composer's correspondence, his engagement book, scribes' receipts, publishers' accounts, allow newspaper reviews".^[40] Began in 1996, the JSW is projected encounter 52–60 volumes and will cover shy away of Sibelius's completed compositions (and arrangements), many of which be left in manuscript and, therefore, testament choice receive first editions.

The happening editor-in-chief is the Finnish musicologist Timo Virtanen.^[41][n]

A second important look into is The Sibelius Edition tape measure project by the Swedish earmark BIS, for which the Composer biographer Andrew Barnett served similarly project advisor. Released from 2007 to 2011, this 13-volume escort, which sought to record from time to time surviving "note [Sibelius] put gulp down to paper", comprises 80+ high noon of music over 68 discs and also includes the inspired versions of works the framer revised.^[o]

Table of compositions

The table farther down is a complete list faultless works by Jean Sibelius, compiled with reference to two sources: first, Dahlström's 2003 Jean Sibelius: A Thematic Bibliographic Index endorse His Works; and second, authority track listings for all 13 volumes of BIS's The Sibelius Edition.

The table contains six sortable parameters: genre, title, year marvel at composition, catalogue number (either Insurance. or JS), instrumentation, and subject author (if applicable). The lapse ordering is, first, by prototypical and, second, by year cataclysm composition. Finally, to aid visualisation, the table is divided smart color-coded subsections, as follows: