SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN E-FLAT MAJOR, OP. 82, IN FULL SCORE
BY JEAN SIBELIUS

PAGES: 144
PUBLISHER: DOVER PUBLICATIONS
SERIES: DOVER ORCHESTRAL MUSIC SCORES
PUBLICATION DATE: 30TH MARCH 2001
TRIM SIZE: 8.12 X 11 IN
FORMAT: PAPERBACK
BISACS:
MUSIC / GENRES & STYLES / CLASSICAL
MUSIC / PRINTED MUSIC / OPERA & CLASSICAL SCORES
MUSIC / PRINTED MUSIC / BAND & ORCHESTRA

DESCRIPTION:
-ONE OF THE GREATEST SCANDINAVIAN COMPOSERS AND A TRULY ORIGINAL FIGURE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC, JEAN SIBELIUS (1865–1957) PUT HIS NATIVE COUNTRY — FINLAND — ON THE MUSICAL MAP. ACCORDING TO GROVE`S DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, HE WAS, 'IN THE FULLEST SENSE OF THE TERM A MUSICAL PATRIOT [WHO] ENRICHED FINNISH MUSIC, BOTH OFFICIALLY AND SPONTANEOUSLY, WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF WORKS LIKELY TO FORM FINLAND`S NATIONAL ART TREASURES.'

-LIKE THE COMPOSER`S OTHER SYMPHONIC MUSIC, THE FIFTH SYMPHONY IS ENTIRELY PERSONAL IN CONTENT AND FORM, TAKING ON ITS CHARACTER FROM THE COMPOSER`S LIFE EXPERIENCES, AND DISTINGUISHED BY A SIMPLICITY AND LUCIDITY THAT HAVE MADE IT ONE OF SIBELIUS`S MOST POPULAR WORKS. NEITHER 'DELIBERATELY MODERN NOR STUDIEDLY ARCHAIC,' NOTES GROVE`S, 'IT IS SIMPLY, IN ITS MOST CHARACTERISTIC MANIFESTATIONS, UNLIKE ANY OTHER MUSIC.'

-REPRINT OF AN EARLY AUTHORITATIVE EDITION.