Adorno on Sibelius

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments and Permissions vii
4. Sibelius, Finland, and t he Idea of Landscape ix
5. Part I. Essays
6. Sibelius and the Russian Traditions 3
7. From Heaven’s Floor to the Composer’s Desk: Sibelius’s Musical Manuscripts and Compositional Process 58
8. Theatrical Sibelius: The Melodramatic Lizard 74
9. The Wings of a Butterfly: Sibelius and the Problems of Musical Modernity 89
10. “Thor’s Hammer”: Sibelius and British Music Critics, 1905–1957 125
11. Jean Sibelius and His American Connections 158
12. Art and the Ideology of Nature: Sibelius, Hamsun, Adorno 173
13. Storms, Symphonies, Silence: Sibelius’s Tempest Music and the Invention of Late Style 186
14. Waving from the Periphery: Sibelius, Aalto, and the Finnish Pavilions 227
15. Old Masters: Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss in the Twentieth Century 256
16. PART II. DOCUMENTS
17. Selections from Adolf Paul’s A Book About a Human Being 307
18. Some Viewpoints Concerning Folk Music and Its Influence on the Musical Arts 315
19. Selection from Erik Furuhjelm’s Jean Sibelius: A Survey of his Life and Music 326
20. Adorno on Sibelius 331
21. Monumentalizing Sibelius: Eila Hiltunen and the Sibelius Memorial Controversy 338
22. Index 355
23. Notes on the Contributors 368