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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Composer of the Week: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957): Episode 4: A Warning from Above

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

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Episode 4: A Warning from Above

A Warning from Above

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), A Warning from Above

Donald Macleod considers the effect of poverty and ill-health on Sibelius's music.

Years of heavy drinking had taken a toll on the health of Sibelius, to the extent that at the age of only 39, he had tremors in his hands. He was persuaded to move out of the city to a house in the countryside. But word had got around that he was in poor health and people who had funded him in the past turned their backs. Donald Macleod explores the music composed by Sibelius in this period, when, with health problems becoming more acute, the composer receives a "warning from above".

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, from his early years to his famous silent period

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