Three of his four string quartets were written by the time he turned 25 in 1890, his final one was a five movement set in D minor, written nearly 20 years later and called Voces Intimae.
Three of his four string quartets were written by the time he turned 25 in 1890, his final one was a five movement set in D minor, written nearly 20 years later and called Voces Intimae. He made his only trip to the U.S. to attend the 1914 Norfolk Festival, where he premiered his tone poem The Oceanides. He composed incidental music for The Tempest, as well a violin concerto in D minor and seven symphonies, having allegedly burned the score for a planned eighth as he abandoned composing for the last decades of his life. Cementing his reputation as a nationalistic composer with the tone poem Kullervo and the Lemmenkainen Suite, this is, FTP, what composer of Finlandia?
Three of his four string quartets were written by the time he turned 25 in 1890, his final one was a five movement set in D minor, written nearly 20 years later and called Voces Intimae.
Jean {Sibelius}