SIBELIUS, Jean 1865-1957

[Op. 68, no. 2]. Zwei Rondinos für klavier zu zwei händen ... Nr. 2. Cis moll

Wein: Universal Ediiton A.G. [PN U.E. 3849], 1913.

Quarto (315 x 235 mm). Original publisher's light green printed wrappers with titling in dark green to upper, publisher's catalogue to verso of lower. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 3-7, [i] (blank) pp. Verso of lower wrapper dated VI [June] 1913.

Wrappers slightly worn and browned; minor chipping to spine; minor markings in ink to publisher's catalogue.

First Edition. Dahlström, p. 303.

"[Sibelius'] work is distinguished by startlingly original adaptations of familiar elements: unorthodox treatments of triadic harmony, orchestral colour and musical process and structure. His music evokes a range of characteristic moods and topics, from celebratory nationalism and political struggle to cold despair and separatist isolation; from brooding contemplations of ‘neo-primitive’ musical ideas or slowly transforming sound textures to meditations on the mysteries, grandeurs and occasionally lurking terrors of archetypal folk myths or natural landscapes. A master of symphonic continuity and compressed, ‘logical’ musical structure, he grounded much of his music in his own conception of the Finnish national temperament." Fabian Dahlström and James Hepokowski in Grove Music Online.

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