- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (28 Aug 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0300111592
- ISBN-13: 978-0300111590
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 793,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Andrew Barnett is unfailingly perceptive and has the ability to engage the interest of both the less informed and the more expert reader. Few would be better qualified to undertake a new book on the Finnish master."--Robert Layton, author of "Sibelius" (Master Musicians Series)
--Robert Layton
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After seeing a gripping film about Sibelius on TV, I longed for a good biography of this fascinating man. This is not it. The author seems to want to mention every single piece of music that he ever wrote, but the man is missing. You will have to wait for a much better book if you want the story of his fiery youth and his self-inflicted silence in middle age. If you want a boring checklist - this will do.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As far as I know, this is the first book which covers (in fascinating detail) virtually every known composition by the Finnish master. As such it makes an excellent companion to The Sibelius Edition, a multibox CD-anthology of gargantuan proportions which is now approaching completion.
The biographical angle is also well covered by Mr Barnett and includes many interesting facts and anecdotes that I've personally not come across elsewhere.
Whether you want to read from cover to cover or dip in at will to hunt for specific information, this impressive and dedicated work of scholarship is a valuable and thoroughly readable 'must' for anyone with an enthusiasm for the music of Jean Sibelius.
The biographical angle is also well covered by Mr Barnett and includes many interesting facts and anecdotes that I've personally not come across elsewhere.
Whether you want to read from cover to cover or dip in at will to hunt for specific information, this impressive and dedicated work of scholarship is a valuable and thoroughly readable 'must' for anyone with an enthusiasm for the music of Jean Sibelius.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
For some mysterious reason this book is marketed as a biography. What it is in fact is a catalogue of every work the composer ever wrote, with maybe an explanatory line or two to put the piece in the context of what he might have been doing at the time. Sibelius the man remains merely a makeshift life-support system to the writer's main concern, the body of work.
Obviously there is a need to deal with more than just those concert fixtures: Finlandia, Valse Triste, Second & Fifth Symphonies. However, the dusty procession of works on every page lacks the detail and scholarship of a critical study, which this book is far closer to in spirit than a biography. Thus it falls between two stools; the writer would have been better advised to have yielded to temptation and gone for the critical study - yes, sales would have been fewer. But no, he wouldn't have written this disaster of a 'biography'.
Obviously there is a need to deal with more than just those concert fixtures: Finlandia, Valse Triste, Second & Fifth Symphonies. However, the dusty procession of works on every page lacks the detail and scholarship of a critical study, which this book is far closer to in spirit than a biography. Thus it falls between two stools; the writer would have been better advised to have yielded to temptation and gone for the critical study - yes, sales would have been fewer. But no, he wouldn't have written this disaster of a 'biography'.
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A must for any Sibelius enthusiast!
I rate this work highly, and do not agree with reviewers who say it concerns itself only with the music of the Finnish Master. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Jim Wakeford/Op. 11 No.1
useful source of reference
Although I haven't yet read this book from cover to cover, it appears to be well-written and thorough, presenting useful and, indeed, essential information for anyone who wishes to... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Clive
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