Sibelius Volume III: 1914-1957 - Volume III : 1914-1957

Informationen zum Autor Erik Tawaststjerna (1916-93) devoted a lifetime to the study of Sibelius, and came to know him personally. After Sibelius's death in l957 he was given unrestricted access to the composer's papers. Tawaststjerna's three-volume study of Sibelius was awarded the prestigious Finlandia Prize and has been hailed as definitive. Robert Layton was the Music Talks Producer for the BBC Third Programme and then Radio 3, and is the author of the standard English study of Sibelius in the Master Musicians series He was awarded the Finnish State Literary Prize in l985 for his translation of the first two volumes of Tawaststjerna's Sibelius , and was subsequently made a Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland for his work on the composer Klappentext With access to Sibelius' papers! diaries and letters! this third volume traces his career from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914! which found him poised on the brink of the Fifth Symphony! through to his death in 1957. It relates in detail the composer's financial plight during these years and his struggles with his own psyche. Zusammenfassung His study differs from other work on the composer in one important respect: he had unrestricted access to the composer's papers, diaries and letters as well as the advantage of numerous conversations with the composer's widow and other members of the family.

Product details

• Authors: Erik Tawaststjerna, Tawaststjerna Erik
• Assisted by: Eri Tawaststjerna (Editor), Erik Tawaststjerna (Editor), Robert Layton (Translation), Layton Robert (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780571247745
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24774-5
• No. of pages: 358
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Romanticism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Composers; Diaries; Faber Finds; Letters; Musicology; WWI