Sibelius A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland

Name: Sibelius A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland
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ISBN: 9780226005478

ISBN-10: 022600547X

ISBN-13: 9780226005478

Edition: 2012

Authors: Glenda Dawn Goss

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One of the twentieth century’s greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Recasting his mysterious musical silence and his undeniably influential life against the backdrop of Finland’s national awakening,Sibeliuswill be the definitive biography of this creative legend for many years to come. Glenda Dawn Goss begins her sweeping narrative in the Finland of Sibelius’s youth, which remained under Russian control for the first five decades of his life. Focusing on previously unexamined events, Goss explores the composer’s formative experiences as a Russian subject and a member of the Swedish-speaking Finnish minority.…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 549
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.684
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface: Methods and Miracles, Debts and Confessions


Practical Questions: Names and References


Abbreviations


Towns and Place-Names


Introduction



a window to the world


The Autonomous Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire



Finland's Nature: Vï¿½rt Land? Our Land



Pillars of Finnish Identity



Nineteenth-Century Finland: Scï¿½nes historiques



Imperial Helsinki



Crosswinds



From Russian Empire to Musical Empire



herï¿½ï¿½ suomi!? awake, finland!



Finland from Afar



Young Finland and the Carelian Call to Arms



Science, Art, and Symbolism



Of Sagas and Springtime



Aphrodite and the National Project



National Aspirations and Symbolist Angst



The Politics of the Theatrical



From Russia but Not with Love



The Finnish Resistance



A New Millennium: Helsinki, Paris, the World!



Italian Classicism and Finnish Nationalism



Country Living and the Finnish National Movement 1905: The Crucial Hour



taide kuuluu kaikille? art belongs to all



Connections East and West



Proletarians versus Bourgeoisie



Turning Points



Onward, Ye Powerful People!



The Militaristic State



Might Makes Right: The 1930s



The Close


Notes


Bibliography


Index