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“Sibelius, le plus mauvais compositeur du monde”
Cette note pertinente est publiée à l’occasion du 90e anniversaire du compositeur finlandais et tirée à 40 exemplaires vélin blanc et 11 exemplaires sur hollande antique, numérotés 1 à 51 par l’éditeur. Le tirage a été exécuté le 8 décembre … Continue reading
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Beyond Nationalism
Arnold Schoenberg wrote in 1947: Piece after the First World War granted political independence to nations, which culturally were far from ready for it. Nevertheless even small nations of six to ten million people expected to be regarded as cultural … Continue reading
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Musical Influences from across the Baltic: Finland until the 19th Century
The Baltic Sea has always been what it still is today, a fairway for goods and people. In times before the construction of railways and modern highways, the waterway was the most natural and, in fact, the only possible route … Continue reading
Nationalism Today
Nationalism in European music, as in European thinking and culture in general, originally is a phenomenon of the 19th century and closely related to subordinated nations becoming aware of themselves and longing for political independence. The idea of a nation-state … Continue reading
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The Symphonic Poems: Formal Strategies
Formal strategies in the symphonic poems of Sibelius are many (it is, in fact, surprising how different his works belonging to this vast category are between themselves). Instead of trying to draw a comprehensive map of methods and procedures that … Continue reading
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Viennese Classicist of the Far North
The influence of German classicism, the dominant musical style of Central Europe in the latter half of the 18th Century, had spread to musical circles in the kingdom of Sweden Finland by the beginning of the ‘Gustavian age’, the reign … Continue reading
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Hat das finnische Volk eine Musikgeschichte?
Der Verfasser einer finnischen Musikgeschichte steht vor einem Paradoxon. Auf der einen Seite ist es offenkundig, daß es heute einer solchen Geschichte weder an Material noch an Substanz fehlt – im Gegensatz zu der Zeit von Martin Wegelius, dem ersten … Continue reading
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Music and Nationality – Who is a Finnish Composer?
Anyone who sets out to write a history of Finnish music finds himself faced with a paradox. There is certainly no shortage of material as there was a century ago when Martin Wegelius, founder of the Helsinki Music Institute (now … Continue reading
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Artistic and Aesthetic Value
This paper is intended as a commentary on the discussion of a conceptual distinction whose outlines are well-known. Aesthetic value is considered to be a category of value based on perception, whereas artistic value is regarded as containing elements not … Continue reading
Har finska folket en musikhistoria?
Författaren till en finsk musikhistoria befinner sig i en paradoxal situation. Å ena sidan är det uppenbart, att det finns en hel del att berätta om på detta område av vår nationella historia i motsats till Martin Wegelius tid; Wegelius … Continue reading
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Studies in music and other writings 
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