This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of classical composer Jean Sibelius. Musician David Was says the composer's work was in danger of falling out of fashion, but is recently enjoying a ...

In his native Finland, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) has always been much more than “just” a great composer. He was the country’s first modern hero: To find an American equivalent, we might liken him to ...

Classical Music aficionados have likely noted that Finnish music and the name of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius have been popping up with unusual frequency. That’s likely because this year marks the ...

More than 1,000 people gathered in the bright sunshine on the steps of Helsinki Cathedral to sing the Finlandia hymn, one of the most popular compositions of composer Jean Sibelius, whose 150th ...

In 1986, Esa-Pekka Salonen, 27 years old and already making a name for himself, recorded Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London. On the CD cover, he is dressed in white tie ...

Wildly popular a century ago as an icon of Finnish nationalism in a late-Romantic vein, Jean Sibelius was largely dismissed by music aficionados after World War II as something of a conservative ...

Jean Sibelius is a specialty of the house at Orchestra Hall. Over the course of Osmo Vänskä's 19 years as music director, the Minnesota Orchestra's interpretations of Finland's national composer have ...

Tuesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Sibelius Unbound” festival ventured into chamber music territory -- a field that a wag might dub “Sibelius Unheard.” In other ...

Sculpture Of composer Jean Sibelius at the Sibelius Monument in Helsinki, Finland. This is the 150th anniversary year of the birth of Finland's greatest composer, so I bet we'll be hearing a lot of ...

It's not all about Osmo. The Minnesota Orchestra's three-week festival of music by Jean Sibelius may be the flagship event of Osmo Vänskä's final season as music director, but for now, the center of ...