Sibelius composed prolifically until the mid-1920s, but after completing his Seventh Symphony (1924), the incidental music for "The Tempest" (1926) and the tone poem "Tapiola" (1926), he stopped producing major works in his last thirty years, a stunning and perplexing decline commonly referred to as "The Silence of Järvenpää", the location of his home. Although he is reputed to have stopped composing, he attempted to continue writing, including abortive efforts on an eighth symphony. In later life, he wrote Masonic music and re-edited some earlier works while retaining an active but not always favourable interest in new developments in music.