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Touring America for the first time, the male chorus of Finland's Helsinki University will give a public concert at Sanders Theatre, Friday evening, January 7, under the auspices of the Division of Music...
...father was a regimental physician, and Sibelius was born at Tavastehus, a small town in the interior of Finland. He was just an ordinary little boy when he began to study the piano at the age of nine, but he started to compose almost immediately. At 15 he took up the violin, with the local military bandmaster as instructor. In his mature years he confessed to an early ambition to become a great violinist. The respectable Sibelius family, however, considered a career as a musician too precarious. They suggested law, and for a time the young composer dutifully pegged away...
...musical studies. There he immersed himself for the first time in the great orchestral music of the Central European romantics. After a year in Germany he went to Vienna, studied with Carl Goldmark and Robert Fuchs, met Brahms who complimented him on his work. When he returned to Finland after an absence of three years, the young man of 27 was already regarded as a figure of national consequence. After a few years of teaching composition and violin at the Musical Institute of Helsingfors he was awarded the grant that enabled him to devote the remainder of his life exclusively...
...musicians the two biggest living composers in the world are undoubtedly Finland's Sibelius and Germany's Richard Strauss (Salome, Der Rosenkavalier). U. S. audiences would probably include a third-dapper, chameleonesque Igor Stravinsky (Le Sacre du Printemps, Petroushka...
...world at large Finland, home of honest muscular seamen, has been more famous for her athletes than for her salons. But Tavasts and Karelians (all Finns are one or the other) point with greater pride to Finland's world's champion literacy record, boast that, except for 0.9% every last Finn today can read and write, exhibit Modernist Architect Eliel Saarinen as world evidence of Finnish culture. If you were to ask on the streets of a U. S. city who was the outstanding modern Finn, chances are the reply would be: Paavo Nurmi. But if you asked...