. Modern composers of Europe : being an account of the most recent musical progress in the various European nations, with some notes on their history, and critical and biographical sketches of the contemporary musical leaders in each country . uced an opera, TheMaid of Pobja. Erik Melartin, another song-writer, studied in Vienna and in Italy. IlmariKrohn has composed motets and instrumentalworks, while he is also known as a teacher at theHelsingfors Hochschule and an interesting mag-azine writer. Emil Genetz aroused enthusiasm withhis Heraa Suomi (Awake, Finland!) andother male choruses, while
. Modern composers of Europe : being an account of the most recent musical progress in the various European nations, with some notes on their history, and critical and biographical sketches of the contemporary musical leaders in each country . uced an opera, TheMaid of Pobja. Erik Melartin, another song-writer, studied in Vienna and in Italy. IlmariKrohn has composed motets and instrumentalworks, while he is also known as a teacher at theHelsingfors Hochschule and an interesting mag-azine writer. Emil Genetz aroused enthusiasm withhis Heraa Suomi (Awake, Finland!) andother male choruses, while Selim Palmgren hasproduced songs and piano pieces of much bril-liancy. But the greatest of the Finnish composers, theonly one who draws the government pension formusical excellence, is Jean Sibelius. He was bornin 1865, and brought up for the legal he knew how to play the violin, and decided ona musical career, studying first under Wegelius,then with Albert Becker at Berlin and Goldmarkin Vienna. He then returned to Helsingfors, wherehe now heads the younger school of Finnish two symphonies, though well-planned works,are marked with some reserve of expression. Heis more inspired in his symphonic poems, such as. JEAN SIBELIUS, THE NORTHERN COUNTRIES 245 Kullervo, with soloists and chorus, and the com-panion legends The Swan of Tuonela and Lemminkainen, from the Kalevala. Isloss-ningen, Sandels, and Snofrid also demanda chorus. His other compositions include cantatas,vocal ballads, the suite Carelia, string quartettesand quintettes, piano pieces, songs, and male cho-ruses. His suite King Christian IV. is a re-markable work, and the Elegy from it is thoroughlytypical of the deep earnestness of the Finnishnature. Sibelius has added new lustre to the musicalfame of his country, and has proven himself a com-poser of real greatness. CHAPTER XL THE NATIONAL RUSSIANS To understand properly the music of Russia, thehearer should be familiar with the country and i
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