Leevi Madetoja
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Leevi Antti Madetoja was a Finnish composer, music critic, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as one of the most significant Finnish contempo
Madetoja (c. 1908)
Paris (c. 1890s), where Madetoja studied from 1910 to 1911; he fell in love with the city and returned many times
Robert Kajanus, to whom Madetoja dedicated his First Symphony
The Oceanides
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The Oceanides, Op. 73, is a single-movement tone poem for orchestra written from 1913 to 1914 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The piece, which refers to the nymphs in Greek mythology who inhabi
Großes Marinestück by Max Jensen (c. 1880), which depicts a stormy sea reminiscent of the one Sibelius creates musically in The Oceanides
Aallottaret (c. 1909), by Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela, the composer's friend
Postcard of the Music Shed (c. 1920s), the venue at which Sibelius premiered The Oceanides in 1914
Swedish composer, Wilhelm Stenhammar (c. 1916), a friend of Sibelius's who was key in securing the European premiere of The Oceanides for Gothenburg