One of these works was commissioned on the occasion of the composer's own fiftieth birthday; that composer wrote that he wished to include "earth, worms and misery, fortissimo and sordinos" while working on the first of three versions of that work. A C/F-sharp tritone figures prominently in the third of these works, and a melody imitating a swan call occurs in the final third movement of the fifth of these compositions. The first one opens with a solo clarinet rhapsody accompanied only by an extremely soft timpani roll; that rhapsody is recapitulated in the strings  at the opening of the fourth movement, which is in E minor. The eighth one of these, much like the B minor eighth work of another composer, was unfinish
One of these works was commissioned on the occasion of the composer's own fiftieth birthday; that composer wrote that he wished to include "earth, worms and misery, fortissimo and sordinos" while working on the first of three versions of that work. A C/F-sharp tritone figures prominently in the third of these works, and a melody imitating a swan call occurs in the final third movement of the fifth of these compositions. The first one opens with a solo clarinet rhapsody accompanied only by an extremely soft timpani roll; that rhapsody is recapitulated in the strings  at the opening of the fourth movement, which is in E minor. The eighth one of these, much like the B minor eighth work of another composer, was unfinished, and material from it may have been reworked into the tone poem Tapiola. FTP, these are all what kind of orchestral composition by the composer of Finlandia?
One of these works was commissioned on the occasion of the composer's own fiftieth birthday; that composer wrote that he wished to include "earth, worms and misery, fortissimo and sordinos" while working on the first of three versions of that work.
{symphonies} of Jean {Sibelius}