4/7/2024 0 Comments Youtube sibelius 5![]() ![]() According to Gould "Sibelius never wrote against the grain of the keyboard. Pianists such as Ilmari Hannikainen, Glenn Gould, Erik Tawaststjerna and Eero Heinonen have seen Sibelius's personal way of writing for the piano as an interesting challenge, and none of them has doubted Sibelius's mastery of the instrument. On the other hand, pianists who have taken the trouble to study the music itself have without exception praised Sibelius's piano style for its originality and its suitability for the instrument. Those who have found fault with Sibelius's piano music have usually been music writers or critics. ![]() One wonders if he was supposed to write only symphonies and let his large family starve. Symphonies and songs." Anyway, it seems absurd to blame a professional composer for trying to maintain his family in the only way he could, by writing music for money. He wrote in his diary (16th May 1910): "One has to combine things great and small. But for Sibelius himself there was no aesthetic problem. ![]() Few great composers have received as much criticism as Sibelius for writing miniatures - especially small-scale piano and violin pieces - instead of concentrating on large orchestral works, and above all on symphonies. ![]()
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