Jean Sibelius Works is published by the National Library of Finland, the Sibelius Society of Finland, and the publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel (Wiesbaden). ![]() The latest volume is the 37th in the series. Alternatively, this work can be mail-ordered from Ourtexts website: click here. The pages have been arranged 2-up in imposition (booklet) order for duplex printing on A4 paper and require an A4 printer. The aim is to publish Sibelius’s production in its entirety in editions based on a thorough study of all surviving sources. This file is part of the Merton-Ourtext Project. The table below is a complete list of works by Jean Sibelius, compiled with reference to two sources: first, Dahlstrm's 2003 Jean Sibelius: A Thematic Bibliographic Index of His Works and second, as a supplement, the 'Catalogue of Works by Jean Sibelius' in Barnett's 2007 biography of the composer, Sibelius. The Jean Sibelius Works project began in 1996. Just the kind that raises a smile on one’s face even at the moment of death.” As he declared to his wife Aino when he finished the Quartet: “It became wonderful. The new edition contains both the earlier version and an earlier correction he planned to make in it”. According to the editor of the volume, Tuija Wicklund, “Sibelius struggled with the ending of the quartet, and he even changed it during the publication process. Many people thought this was Sibelius’s only string quartet, possibly because it was the only one to be printed and recorded during his lifetime.Ĭo-editor of the volume, conductor Pekka Helasvuo, points out “ an interesting change of rhythm in the third movement that is likely to draw the players’ attention”. 56) was composed almost two decades later, in 1909. The fourth and last one ( Voces intimae, Op. 4) a good year after this, and some movements were performed more than once, most recently in 1915. He composed the third quartet (B-flat major, Op. His next quartet (A minor, JS 183) was the work that marked the completion of his studies in 1889, and it was performed at the Institute’s soiree. The music captures Schubert’s fearful state of mind in a remarkable ‘freeze frame’ effect.Sibelius composed his first string quartet (E-flat major, JS 184) for home music-making in the summer of 1885, before he started his studies at the Helsinki Music Institute. ![]() ‘Give me your hand, you fair and gentle creature I am a friend and do not come to punish’ sings Death soothingly. The D minor quartet makes ingenious use of his earlier song ‘Death and the Maiden’ from 1817 in the slow movement’s variations. With his emotions veering from happy memories of earlier years to shuddering terror at the prospect of death, he composed two string quartets and the Octet over a two- month period. “I am the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world…whose health will never be right again” wrote Schubert to a friend in 1824. Taut and highly concentrated, it has an almost Haydnesque construction, and the quartet’s first movement’s sheer perfection of form approaches that of the 3rd Symphony’s opening movement. The bleak and highly personal 4th Symphony is the masterwork from this period, but the string quartet ‘Intimate Voices’ of 1908 should not be underestimated. Sibelius had undergone several operations to remove a tumour in his throat. Death preyed heavily on the minds of both Schubert and Sibelius when they were composing the two string quartets on this new CD from the Ehnes Quartet.
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