Symphony No. 2 (Sibelius)
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The Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43, is a four-movement work for orchestra written from 1901 to 1902 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
The composer (c. 1902)
Robert Kajanus and Jean Sibelius (two right-most people), in an 1894 painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Orchesterwerke Romantik Themen
Virgil Thomson
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Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassic
Symphony No. 2 (Sibelius)
…The symphony has been called "one of the few symphonic creations of our time that point in the same direction as Beethoven’s symphonies". However, Virgil Thomson wrote in the New York Herald Tribune that the symphony was "vulgar, self-indulgent, and provincial beyond all description". Sir Colin Davis quoted…
Thomson in 1947, photographed by Carl Van Vechten
Maurice Grosser in 1935
Gertrude Stein in 1934, photographed by Carl Van Vechten