Jean Sibelius was a famous music composer who died at age 91. Jean was born
December 8, 1865 in Hämeenlinna, Finland. Jeans birth name was Johan Julius Christian
Sibelius; at home, he was called Janne, and later changed to Jean and thus became known as Jean
Sibelius. Jean's parents are Christian Gustaf Sibelius and Maria Charlotta Sibelius. Jeans brother and sister are Linda and Christian Sibelius. Jeans father, Christian died when Jean was three years old, Christian died from typhoid in July 1868. When Sibelius's father died, Maria, Jean's mother was pregnant.
The fall of 1888, while studying music in Helsinki, Sibelius met Aino, the daughter of
General Alexander Järnefelt, the governor of Vaasa, and fell in love with her. They got
married
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Jean had developed a long-lasting relationship with
Busoni, which had in that case impacted him greatly. Another reason for Jean changing his name was because he got inspired by one of his "seafaring" uncles. Jean changed his name because this way it sounded more professional.
In 1889 Jean finished studying at the Helsinki Music Institute. From there at around the same time, on the counsel of Wegelius, who needed his understudy to get strict German preparing, he moved to Berlin and started to think about contrast with Albert Becker. As he moved to Berlin he had many different opportunities to attend concerts and operas. In addition to those other influences, Jean has been mostly influenced by a Finnish composer,
Robert Kajanus. It is said to have enlivened Sibelius to utilize the poem 'Kalevala' as a reason for his structure sometime down the road.
In 1890 Jean moved to Vienna, where he studied with other composers Robert Fuchs and Karl Goldmark. So far Jean Sibelius had for the most part focused on orchestral compositions. Now with Goldmark’s guidance, he began to work on orchestra and composed
Limon 4
‘Overture in E major’ and the ‘Scène de ballet'. During this time Sibelius was more aware
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say, a statue had never been erected in honor of a critic", Jean Sibelius.
In the summer of 1891 Jean returned home. He continued working on "Kullervo" and was premiered on 28 April, 1892. also, with-it Sibelius turned into an outstanding name in
Finland. Notwithstanding, it didn't end there. In 1892, to meet his costs, he was compelled to take showing assignments at two distinct foundations. This left him with almost no time for composing. However, he kept on working and on February 16,1893, he had his first form of
'En Adventure' introduced in Helsinki. He had three more performances of the ‘Kullervo
Symphony’, but they too failed to be appreciated.
Achievement came at last in April 1893 with the debut of his choral work
'Väinämöinen's 'Boat-ride'. 'Vårsång', composed in 1894, is another of his outstanding works of this time. Gradually, he started to pick up acknowledgment as a main author in Finland.
	At the age of thirteen he boarded a ship to Whitehaven, which was a large port across the Solway Firth. There he signed up for a seven year seaman's apprenticeship on The Friendship of Whitehaven, whose captain was James Younger, a prosperous merchant and ship owner. His first voyage took him across the Atlantic Ocean to Barbados and Fredericksburg, Virginia at which he stayed with his older brother William, a tailor, who had left Scotland for America over thirteen years before, and who now was living comfortably and flourishing.
... I did when I was just starting.”(222). Sousa remained passionate, determined, creative, considerate, and ambitious all his life. At age seventy-seven, he retired early at a banquet in Pennsylvania before he conducted an anniversary concert. John Philip Sousa died from a heart attack, losing his last breath on March sixth, 1932. His funeral proceeded, solemn and respectful as The Marine Band played proudly as Sousa descended into the cold Earth. The March King lived through a life full of music, his own words summing life up as well as any others, “No one has had a richer, happier life than I have had. I believe that God intended me for a musician, and I was lucky that I could make my living by doing what I wanted to do . . . American is a restless country. We do not sadness. We want rhythm, and brightness . . . I have tried to put sunshine into music . . .” (241).
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