{"product_id":"jean-sibelius-and-his-world-9780691152813","title":"Jean Sibelius and His World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew perspectives on the greatest Finnish composer of all time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. At the height of his popular appeal, he was revered as the embodiment of Finnish nationalism and the apostle of a new musical naturalism. Yet he seemingly chose that moment to stop composing altogether, despite living for three more decades. Providing wide cultural contexts, contesting received ideas about modernism, and interrogating notions of landscape and nature, \u003ci\u003eJean Sibelius and His World\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on the critical position occupied by Sibelius in the Western musical tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essays in the book explore such varied themes as the impact of Russian musical traditions on Sibelius, his compositional process, Sibelius and the theater, his understanding of music as a fluid and improvised creation, his critical reception in Great Britain and America, his late style in the incidental music for \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e, and the parallel contemporary careers of Sibelius and Richard Strauss. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDocuments include the draft of Sibelius's 1896 lecture on folk music, selections from a roman   clef about his student circle in Berlin at the turn of the century, Theodor Adorno's brief but controversial tirade against the composer, and the newspaper debates about the Sibelius monument unveiled in Helsinki a decade after the composer's death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe contributors are Byron Adams, Leon Botstein, Philip Ross Bullock, Glenda Dawn Goss, Daniel Grimley, Jeffrey Kallberg, Tomi M kel , Sarah Menin, Max Paddison, and Timo Virtanen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel M. Grimley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691152813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel M. Grimley\u003c\/b\u003e is university lecturer in music at the University of Oxford, tutorial fellow of Merton College, and senior lecturer in music at University College. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Sibelius\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eGrieg and Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40568791629939,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":71.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2318bf17-23fe-4bb6-af59-577a40f23482.jpg?v=1668091800","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/jean-sibelius-and-his-world-9780691152813","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}