Author Archives: Ilkka Oramo

About Ilkka Oramo

Professor of Music Theory, emeritus

Jean Sibelius: Symfoni nr 2 D-dur Op. 43 (1902)

Posted on 04/28/2015 by Ilkka Oramo

I mars 1900, några månader innan Filharmoniska Sällskapet (som senare blev Helsingfors stadsorkester efter en sammanslagning 1914 med Helsiginfors Symfoniorkester) gjorde sin första europeiska turné, fick Sibelius ett brev undertecknat av ”X”. I brevet frågade X om Sibelius ”ej tänkt skrifva … Continue reading →

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Jean Sibelius: Symfoni nr 1 e-moll Op. 39 (1900)

Posted on 04/28/2015 by Ilkka Oramo

Den allra första symfonin Sibelius komponerade är egentligen Kullervo, op 7 (Kalevala, 1892) – ”Symfoni för Mezzo-sopran, baryton, manskör och orkester” – som han började skriva under studietiden i Wien 1891. Även om premiären i Helsingfors året därpå blev en … Continue reading →

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Sibelius och Sverige

Posted on 04/27/2015 by Ilkka Oramo

Sibelius förhållande till Sverige var speciellt på grund av hans svenska modersmål. Han var väl förtrogen med svensk litteratur, och många av hans finaste sånger är skrivna till dikter av svenska författare. I sex sånger op. 36 (1899–1900) till exempel … Continue reading →

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Jean Sibelius – tonsättare

Posted on 04/14/2015 by Ilkka Oramo

Vilka är Sibelius mest kända verk? Förmodligen Finlandia, Valse triste och Symfoni nr. 2. Finlandia (1899/1900) hette ursprungligen ”Suomi herää” (Finland vaknar) och var sista numret i en serie av levande tablåer som illustrerade olika skeden i Finlands historia från … Continue reading →

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Jean Sibelius – composer and patriot

Posted on 03/12/2015 by Ilkka Oramo

Jean Sibelius died on 20 September 1957 at home in Järvenpää. On 29 September, his coffin was carried to the Helsinki Cathedral, and from nine o’clock in the evening until midnight, 17000 people filed past the coffin to pay their … Continue reading →

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Heininen, Paavo

Posted on 07/01/2014 by Ilkka Oramo

Published in print:20 January 2001, Published online:2001; updated and revised, 1 July 2014 (b Helsinki, Jan 13, 1938). Finnish composer. After taking private lessons in composition from Meriläinen he studied at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki (1956–60), with Aarre Merikanto, Rautavaara, Englund and Kokkonen, at … Continue reading →

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Helmuth Thierfelder’s 1935 Open Letter to Jean Sibelius

Posted on 03/31/2014 by Ilkka Oramo

Helmuth Thierfelder’s open letter to Jean Sibelius from 1935,[1] drowned for decades, has suddenly surfaced as Timothy L. Jackson has maintained that Adorno’s renown ‘Glosse über Sibelius’[2] or, in fact, its nameless first printing,[3] which Adorno wrote in New York, … Continue reading →

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Palmgren, Selim

Posted on 01/31/2014 by Ilkka Oramo

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001; updated, 31 January 2014 (b Björneborg [now Pori], Feb 16, 1878; d Helsinki, Dec 16, 1951). Finnish composer, pianist and conductor. He was a pupil of Wegelius (harmony and counterpoint) and of Petzet, Melcer-Szczawiński and Ekman (piano) at the Helsinki Music Institute (1895–9), … Continue reading →

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Pylkkänen, Tauno

Posted on 01/31/2014 by Ilkka Oramo

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001; updated, 31 January 2014 b Helsinki, March 22, 1918; d Helsinki, March 13, 1980). Finnish composer. He studied composition with Madetoja, Palmgren and Ranta at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki (1937–40) and musicology at Helsinki University (MA 1941). Appointments followed … Continue reading →

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Bergman, Erik

Posted on 01/31/2014 by Ilkka Oramo

Published in print:20 January 2001, Published online:2001; updated, 31 January 2014; updated, 23 February 2011 (b Uusikaarlepyy, Nov 24, 1911; d Helsinki, April 24, 2006). Finnish composer. He studied musicology with Ilmari Krohn and literature with Yrjö Hirn at Helsinki University (1931–3) and attended the Helsinki Conservatory … Continue reading →

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