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Jean Sibelius
Geburtstag: 8. Dezember 1865
Todesdatum: 20. September 1957
Johan Julius Christian Sibelius war ein finnischer Komponist am Übergang von der Spätromantik zur Moderne. Wikipedia
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Robert Layton Sibelius (London: J. M. Dent, [1965] 1971), ch. 16, p. 153.
Criticism
Bengt de Törne Sibelius: A Close-Up (London: Faber and Faber, 1937), p. 94.
Usually quoted as "Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art."
Neville Cardus in the Manchester Guardian, 1935; reprinted in his The Delights of Music (1966) p. 56.
Criticism
„Art is the signature of civilizations.“
Beverly Sills, interviewed on NBC TV, May 4, 1985.
Misattributed
Cecil Gray Sibelius: The Symphonies (London: Oxford University Press, 1935) p. 56.
Of his Symphony No. 6 (1923).
To Jussi Jalas, October 1, 1939. http://www.sibelius.fi/english/omin_sanoin/ominsanoin_16.htm
Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas Living Biographies of Great Composers (Garden City (NY): Blue Ribbon, [1940] 1946) p. 309.
Said in 1907, in conversation with Gustav Mahler.
Bengt de Törne Sibelius: A Close-Up (London: Faber and Faber25 october
Interview with Berlingske Tidende, June 10, 1919. http://www.sibelius.fi/english/omin_sanoin/ominsanoin_16.htm
Quoted by Jalmari Finne, June 28, 1905. http://www.sibelius.fi/english/omin_sanoin/ominsanoin_16.htm
To Jussi Jalas, August 27, 1943. http://www.sibelius.fi/english/omin_sanoin/ominsanoin_13.htm
George Bernard Shaw, in the Manchester Guardian, November 1, 1938.
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