Jean Sibelius and His World

Contents\nAcknowledgments and Permissions\nSibelius, Finland, and t he Idea of Landscape\nPart I. Essays\nSibelius and the Russian Traditions\nFrom Heaven’s Floor to the Composer’s Desk: Sibelius’s Musical Manuscripts and Compositional Process\nTheatrical Sibelius: The Melodramatic Lizard\nThe Wings of a Butterfly: Sibelius and the Problems of Musical Modernity\n“Thor’s Hammer”: Sibelius and British Music Critics, 1905–1957\nJean Sibelius and His American Connections\nArt and the Ideology of Nature: Sibelius, Hamsun, Adorno\nStorms, Symphonies, Silence: Sibelius’s Tempest Music and the Invention of Late Style\nWaving from the Periphery: Sibelius, Aalto, and the Finnish Pavilions\nOld Masters: Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss in the Twentieth Century\nPART II. DOCUMENTS\nSelections from Adolf Paul’s A Book About a Human Being\nSome Viewpoints Concerning Folk Music and Its Influence on the Musical Arts\nSelection from Erik Furuhjelm’s Jean Sibelius: A Survey of his Life and Music\nAdorno on Sibelius\nMonumentalizing Sibelius: Eila Hiltunen and the Sibelius Memorial Controversy\nIndex\nNotes on the Contributors