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Jean Sibelius

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Noun1.Jean Sibelius - Finnish composer (1865-1957)


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The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius remarked once that no one has ever created a monument to honor a critic and he was very nearly right.
The wide-open Nordic landscape will be evoked through the romantic music of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite - composed as incidental music to Ibsen's play of the same name and Humoresques by Jean Sibelius, which will display the talents of Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud.
Before all those fireworks, young Russian-born German violinist Alina Pogostkina will demonstrate the skill which in 2005 won her first prize in Helsinki's International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition - as well as a special prize for best interpretation - in a performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto.
 
 
 
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