Daniel M. Grimley (Editor) - The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius

The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius

Jean Sibelius has gradually emerged as one of the most striking and influential figures in twentieth-century music, yet his work is only just beginning to receive the critical attention that its importance deserves. This Companion provides an accessible and vivid account of Sibeliuss work in its historical and cultural context. Leading international scholars, from Finland, the United States and the UK, examine Sibeliuss music from a range of critical perspectives, including nationalism, eroticism and the exotic, music and landscape, reception and musical influence. There are also chapters on recording and interpretation that offer fascinating insights into the performance of Sibeliuss work. The book includes much new material, drawing on recent scholarship, as well as providing a comprehensive introduction to Sibeliuss major musical achievements.

DANIEL M. GRIMLEY is a Lecturer in Music at the University of Nottingham. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Elgar (forthcoming), and has written articles on the music of Carl Nielsen in Music Analysis and The Musical Quarterly. Current projects include books on Grieg and on landscape in Nordic music, 18901930.

The Cambridge Companion to

SIBELIUS

EDITED BY
Daniel M. Grimley

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The Cambridge companion to Sibelius / edited by Daniel M. Grimley.

p. cm. (Cambridge companions to music)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263) and index.

ISBN 0 521 81552 5 ISBN 0 521 89460 3 (pb.)

1. Sibelius, Jean, 18651957 Criticism and interpretation. I. Grimley, Daniel M. II. Series.

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Notes on contributors

Julian Anderson studied composition with John Lambert, Tristan Murail and Alexander Goehr. His compositions include The Stations of the Sun and Imagind Corners, both for orchestra, Khorovod and Alhambra Fantasy for ensemble, and Poetry Nearing Silence for septet. He is currently Composer in Association with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Head of Composition at the Royal College of Music, London. He has published numerous articles on a wide variety of new music in both English and French.

Stephen Downes is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Surrey. His publications include two monographs on Szymanowski, and articles on Rossini, Beethoven, Schumann, Bartk, and Penderecki. He is currently working on a book entitled The Muse as Eros: Musical Constructions of Inspiration and Desire from Romantic Idealism to Modernist Anxiety.

Peter Franklin is Reader in Music at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of St Catherines College. His published work includes Mahler Symphony no. 3 (1991) and The Life of Mahler (1997). He also writes on early-twentieth-century opera and classical Hollywood film music.

Glenda Dawn Goss, formerly Professor of Musicology at the University of Georgia (Athens), has been Editor-in-Chief of the complete edition Jean Sibelius Works since 2000. She is editor and author of various books on Sibelius including Jean Sibelius and Olin Downes: Music, Friendship, Criticism (1995), The Sibelius Companion (1996) and Jean Sibelius: A Guide to Research (1998), as well as a volume of correspondence, The Hmeenlinna Letters. Jean Sibelius ungdomsbrev (1997).

Daniel M. Grimley wrote his doctoral dissertation on the music of Carl Nielsen at Kings College, Cambridge (1998), and is Lecturer in Music at the University of Nottingham. Current projects include co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Elgar with Julian Rushton, and books on Grieg and on landscape in Nordic music, 18901930.

James Hepokoski is Professor of Music History at Yale University and is the co-editor of the journal Nineteenth-Century Music. His most recent publications include the entry on Sibelius in the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001). In collaboration with Warren Darcy he has completed a book on classical musical structure, Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata, forthcoming.

Matti Huttunen gained his doctorate from the University of Turku in 1993, and has been Professor of Music History at the Sibelius Academy since 1998. His work includes a broad range of articles and papers on music historiography, nationalism, and Finnish music, as well as a book, Jean Sibelius: Pienoiselmnkerta/An Illustrated Life (1999).

Jeffrey Kallberg is Professor of Music History at the University of Pennsylvania. He publishes widely on the music and cultural contexts of Chopin; his current projects include a study of Scandinavian song in the first half of the twentieth century.

Bethany Lowe is Lecturer in Music at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Her research interests include Sibelius, British symphonic composition, music analysis, and the relationship between analysis and performance. Her doctoral dissertation examined the structural aspects of forty-one recorded performances of Sibeliuss Fifth Symphony. Bethany is also Assistant Editor to the journal Music Analysis and an active conductor.

Tomi Mkel completed his doctorate, Virtuositt und Werkcharakter (Katzbichler: Mnchen-Salzburg 1989), in Berlin (with Carl Dahlhaus) in 1988, and his Habilitation in Helsinki (a book on 1920s chamber music) in 1990. He has been Professor of Musicology at the University of Magdeburg since 1996, and has recently written articles on music of the nineteenth (Wieniawski) and early twentieth centuries (Reger, Schoenberg, Sibelius, Stravinsky, urbanity, musical exile, film music, Finnish topics).

Veijo Murtomki is Professor of Music History at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and author of Symphonic Unity: the Development of Formal Thinking in the Symphonies of Sibelius (Helsinki, 1993). With Professor Timothy L. Jackson, he was co-editor of Sibelius Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and editor of two Sibelius Conference Reports (Helsinki, 1995 and 2000). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the