Jean Sibelius (1865 – 1957)
Symphony No. 3 in C major op. 52
The definitive version of Sibelius' Third JSW – Complete Works – Series I (Orchestral works) 4 edited by the National Library of Finland and the Sibelius Society of Finland
symphonic orchestra
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Details
- For
- symphonic orchestra
- Product Type
- Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
- Author / Composer
- Jean Sibelius
- Editor
- Timo Virtanen
- Product number
- 561474
- Release Year
- 2010
Description
If Jean Sibelius really did call his Third Symphony his "most unfortunate child," he was perhaps thinking not only of the work's hesitant reception, but also of its difficult birth. Sibelius began the piece in 1904, but then stopped and only resumed work on his not very detailed sketches in 1906/07. He kept making alterations until the final rehearsal and up to the premiere. Yet even then he had not yet attained the final form of the Third, as Timo Virtanen has shown.
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