What is the national epic poem of Finland (usually translated as 'Land of Heroes'). Sibelius set some of its myths to music in his tone poems.
Jean Sibelius buried in the garden at Ainola. Aino Sibelius lived there for the next 12 years until she died on 8 June 1969 aged 97; she is buried alongside her husband. Sibelius is widely known for his symphonies and his tone poems, especially "Finlandia" and the "Karelia suite". His reputation in Finland grew in the 1890s with the choral symphony "Kullervo", which like many subsequent pieces drew on the epic poem "Kalevala". His First Symphony was first performed to an enthusiastic audience in 1899 at a time when Finnish nationalism was evolving. In addition to six more symphonies, he gained popularity
The Tempest (Sibelius) The Tempest (Sibelius) The Tempest (Stormen), Op. 109, is incidental music to Shakespeare's "The Tempest", by Jean Sibelius. He composed it in 1925–26, at about the same time as he wrote his tone poem "Tapiola". Sibelius derived two suites for piano from the score. The music is said to display an astounding richness of imagination and inventive capacity, and is considered by some as one of Sibelius's greatest achievements. He represented individual characters through instrumentation choices: particularly admired was his use of harps and percussion to represent Prospero, said to capture the "resonant ambiguity of the character". Sibelius had completed