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by Grimley, Daniel M.


  Lindberg, Magnus, 293

  Lindgren, Armas, 149, 228, 229, 234

  Lindley, David, 194, 208

  Liszt, Franz, 29, 30, 43, 47, 57n180, 95, 108, 110, 112–13, 114, 159, 258, 267, 282, 321; Strauss and, 261, 263; works: Dante Symphony, 271; Piano Concerto no. 1, 127; Piano Sonata in B-Minor, 114; Les préludes, 111

  literature, 91, 258, 259, 307; English, 195; Finnish, 77–78; Russian, 19, 49

  “Little Carl Slept” (folk song), 323

  Locrian mode, 103, 208

  Loeffler, Charles Martin, 162

  London, 49, 56n153, 93, 104, 107, 109, 126, 134, 153n9, 175, 188, 194, 196

  Lönnrot, Elias, 7, 9, 31, 239, 240

  Loos, Adolf, 281; Goldman & Salatsch building, 280

  Louhi Band, 162–64

  Löwenthal, Leo, 173, 175, 177–81, 336

  Lutheran Church, 16, 31, 166, 169, 234, 239, 281

  Lyadov, Anatoliy, 21

  Lyapunov, Sergey, Ballade, 28

  Lybeck, Mikael, 87n30; Ödlan, 75–85, 77, 78, 85n2, 86n3, n9, 87n10

  Lydian mode, 212

  Lyotard, Jean-François, 179

  MacDowell, Edward, 329

  Madetoja, Leevi, 119, 163

  Maeterlinck, Maurice, 75, 79, 194; Pelléas et Mélisande, 66, 199

  Mahler, Gustav, 30, 70, 73n24, 93, 99, 107, 119, 144, 161, 259, 260, 270, 281, 282; Symphony no. 3, 271; Symphony no. 5, 99

  Mäkelä, Tomi, 173, 175, 189–90, 250, 297n5, 298n8, 300n29, 315, 332, 340

  Mandelstam, Osip, 38

  Mann, Thomas, 167, 215, 260

  Mannerheim, General Carl Gustaf Emil, 345, 347, 349, 353n7

  mannerism, 263

  Maria Fyodorovna, Dowager Empress, 14

  Matisse, Henri, 133

  Maxwell Davies, Peter, 129

  McMullen, Gordon, 190, 216, 218

  Mecca Temple (New York City Center), 162

  Mees, Arthur, 162

  Mendelssohn, Felix, 42n58, 259

  Menin, Sarah, 302n82

  Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 154n43

  Michelangelo, 351–53

  Miller, Vsevolod, 37

  minimalism, 100, 114–16, 123n70, 178, 273, 287

  Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, 169n3

  modernism, 25, 45, 47, 67, 93–102, 110–12, 116, 119–20, 186, 210, 256–58, 265, 266, 271, 273, 339; Adorno on, 126, 177–83; architectural, 149, 232, 234–37, 240, 241, 246, 251, 276–77, 280, 282, 285–91, 293, 295–96; avant-garde, 94, 352; British views of, 127, 130, 132, 135, 145, 147–52; literary, 307; nationalism and, 28, 37, 40–42; Russian, 49; of Schoenberg, 91, 94, 96, 108, 132, 280; of Stravinsky, 41; Viennese, 92

  modernity, 46, 93–96, 101, 130, 235, 260–61, 268, 276–81, 298n9, 343; of Brahms, 215; nature and, 268, 275, 276, 282, 290–91, 294–97; retreat from, 181–82; Shakespeare and, 196, 197; Strauss’s approach to, 264, 265, 296; of Tchaikovsky, 29

  Monessen Sibelius Society, 163, 170n21

  Morgan, Geraldine, 159, 169n3

  Morgan, Paul, 159, 161, 169n3

  Mormon Tabernacle Choir, 167

  Mörne, Arvid, 349

  Morrison, Mary, 225n39

  Moscow, 25, 28, 38, 53n80

  Moscow Conservatory, 18

  Mosse, George L., 134–35, 141–42

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 263, 265, 298n11; Requiem, 119

  Munch, Edvard, 308

  Murtomäki, Veijo, 27, 29–31, 37, 42, 43, 55n126, 56n161, 186, 316, 325n5

  Mussorgsky, Modest, 133; Boris Godunov, 44; Night on Bare Mountain, 30

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 89

  Napoleon, Emperor of France, 7

  Nation, The, 156n59

  nationalism, 3, 5, 15–18, 20–21, 31, 338, 341; architecture and, 232, 281, 284; British, 130, 145; cosmopolitanism versus, 134–35, 140; German, 183, 257; nature and, 135, 232, 233, 326; racial ideology and, 140–42, 144, 148; Russian, 12, 13, 15, 17, 30, 40–42; Sibelius and, 3, 5, 25, 28, 37–38, 40–42, 45–49, 127, 140, 144, 231, 316; Swedish identity and heritage and, 9, 24, 257

  Nazism, 154n44, 173, 177, 178, 181, 257, 308, 331, 332

  neoclassicism, 38, 41, 228, 263, 265, 271, 288; architectural, 234, 235, 282

  Neue Freie Volksbühne, 161

  Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), 277

  New German School, 29, 37, 95

  Newman, Ernest, 129–30, 132, 135, 140, 141, 144–45, 147–49, 151–52, 152n2, 173; Adorno and, 125–26, 152n3, 176, 331; on nationalism in music, 144, 157n94; obituary tribute to Sibelius by, 135, 144–45; and scientific racism, 136, 145, 154n44

  Newmarch, Rosa, 97–98, 126–29, 131–32, 140, 151–52, 188

  New Music, 235, 332, 334–36

  New Russian School, 41, 43

  New York Herald, 139

  New York Philharmonic Orchestra, 160, 161, 165, 166

  New York Symphony Society, 111

  New York Times, 164

  New York World’s Fair (1939), 167, 227, 243; Finnish Pavilion, 241–47, 242, 244, 250–51, 254n70

  Nicholas I, Tsar, 10

  Nicholas II, Tsar, 13–14, 16, 20

  Nielsen, Kai, 194, 195 Niemann, Walter, 4, 47, 281, 298n10

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 91, 196, 262, 275; Also sprach Zarathustra, 197

  Nobel Prize: for Literature, 156n61, 175; for Peace, 156n59

  Nordau, Max, 134; Entartung, 154n35

  Nordic Music Festival (Heidelberg, 1924), 107

  Norfolk Festival, 111

  Norrie, Wilhelm, 191, 192

  Northwestern University, 165

  Notker Balbulus (Notker the Stammerer), 325n7; Allena Gud, 319

  Nottebohm, Gustav, 62

  Nurmi, Paavo, 141, 156n68, 349

  Ojanperä, Abraham, 159

  Olbrich, Joseph Maria, 281

  Old Finns, 16

  Olympic Games, 156n68

  Oxford University, 139, 156n61, 331

  Paddison, Max, 95–96, 99, 121n8, 331

  paganism, 239

  Paine, Richmond Park, 162

  painting, 19–20, 133, 267–68, 274, 277, 279, 333; eighteenth-century, 262, 264, 265; landscape, 117, 118, 262

  Päivälehti (newspaper), 18

  Pallasmaa, Juhani, 240

  Palmgren, Selim, 164

  Pan-European Union, 94

  Paraske, Larin, 31, 316, 349

  Paris, 5, 29, 47–49, 104, 233, 276; performances of Sibelius’s works in, 53n70, 161; Universal Exposition (1900), 16, 47–48, 227–32, 229, 230, 234, 250, 252n15, 281

  Parker, Horatio, 161–62

  Parmet, Simon, 142, 303n104, 327, 339, 342–53

  Parry, C. Hubert H., 136, 142, 147, 154n43, 157n90; The Evolution of the Art of Music, 136

  Parry, Milman, 239

  Paul, Adolf, 169, 308, 315; En bok om en Människa (A book about a human being), 308–14; King Christian II, 127, 308

  Peitso, Martti, 341

  Petrucci, Ottaviano, 320

  Pfitzner, Hans, 259, 260

  Pietinen, Otso, 341

  Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 171n28

  Platonism, 277

  poetry, 38, 84, 189, 272; baroque, 263; nationalism and, 7, 233, 326; nature, 119, 190; neoclassical, 263

  Polish Constitutional Charter (1815), 9

  Polvinen, Tuomo, 10, 15

  Popper, David, Elfentanz, 169n6

  postmodernism, 94–96, 102, 258, 295

  post-Romanticism, 94, 98, 107, 336

  Poulsen, Johannes, 187, 191–95, 211, 213, 224n29

  Powell, Maud, 160, 162

  primitivism, 45, 46, 80, 132–35, 147, 151, 194, 196, 199, 228, 237, 268, 332

  Promenade Concerts, 126, 127, 153n7, n17, n22

  Pushkin, Alexander, 233; Eugene Onegin, 19

  Queen’s Hall Orchestra, 153n9

  Quisling, Vidkun, 181

  Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 3, 26, 29; Isle of the Dead, 32, 35

  racial theories, 135–40, 144–50, 154n40, n43, n44, 155n54

  Ramnarine, Tina K., 30

  Räsänen, Kauko, 341
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  Ravel, Maurice, 107, 108, 147; Gaspard de la nuit, 52n58

  Read, Gardner, 165–66, 171n26, n28

  Reagan, Ronald, 167

  Red Army, 242, 332

  Reger, Max, 98–99, 315; String Quartet in E-flat Major, 108

  Reichsmusikkammer (Nazi State Music Bureau), 257

  Renvall, Ben, 341

  Repin, Ilya, 21; Portrait of Axel GallenKallela, 23

  Republican Party, 155n52, n53

  Riefenstahl, Leni, Olympia, 141

  Rihm, Wolfgang, 95, 101

  Rijnvos, Richard, 95

  Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 3, 21, 24, 25, 27, 30, 38, 41, 133, 163; Sadko, 29, 32, 36; Sheherezade, 54n100; Symphony no. 3, 39, 43

  Ritter, Alexander, 259

  rococo, 262, 263

  Rode, Jacques-Pierre, 18

  Rodin, Auguste, 353

  Romanticism, 30, 37, 43, 112, 119, 261, 265, 269, 282; post-, 94, 98, 107, 336

  Rome, 91, 112, 165; ancient, 262

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 138, 155n52

  Rose, Axl, 168

  rotational form, 39–41, 61, 211–13, 269, 272

  Rousseau, Henri, 133

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 275

  Royal College of Music (London), 136

  Royal Theatre (Copenhagen), 187, 190, 192–94, 224n29

  Rubinstein, Anton, 18; Ocean Symphony, 271

  Runeberg, Johan Ludvig, 7, 309, 327, 347, 349

  Russia, 17–24, 227–32, 281; communist, see Soviet Union; folk music of, 31, 32, 36, 45, 55n126; Grand Duchy of Finland and, 3, 5–17, 166, 225n53, 230; musical traditions of, 24–49, 126, 230, 260 (see also specific composers); Revolution of 1917, 227, 326

  Russian Orthodox Church, 239

  Russification, 3, 13–14

  Ruuti, Axel, 162

  Rydberg, Viktor, 84

  Saarinen, Eliel, 149, 228, 229, 234, 276, 277, 281–95, 302n81, n82, 303n100, n101, 345; The City: Its Growth, Its Decay, Its Future, 288; Finnish Pavilion, Paris Universal Exposition, 228–31, 229, 230, 234, 250, 281; Helsinki Railway Station, 284, 284–85, 292; Hvitträsk, 228, 232, 234, 281, 292; Kalevala House, 285, 286, 287, 292, 303n100; Kleinhans Hall, 286–88, 288, 293; Lahti Town Hall, 285, 292, 303n100; Parliament House, 285, 286, 292; Pohjola Insurance Company Building, 283, 284; The Search for Form, 288; Tabernacle Church of Christ, 286, 287

  Safonoff, Wassily, 160

  Said, Edward, 187

  St. Petersburg, 7, 12–13, 15, 18, 22–24, 28, 44, 57n193, 233; performances of Sibelius’s music in, 24–25, 37, 45, 53n87; visual arts in, 19–20, 38, 281

  St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, 19–20

  St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, 10

  St. Petersburg Conservatory, 18, 21, 24

  Saint-Saëns, Camille, Septet for trumpet, string quintet, and piano, 160

  Salmenhaara, Erkki, 114, 240

  Sarajas-Korte, Salme, 228

  Sargent, Malcolm, 129

  Sarlin, Anna, 70

  Saroyan, William, 168

  Satie, Erik, 193

  Scharoun, Hans, 241

  Schauman, Eugen, 14

  Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph, 286; Philosophy of Art, 278–80

  Schenker, Heinrich, 70, 260

  Schildt, Göran, 243

  Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von, 195, 298n5, 299n26

  Schlegel, August Wilhelm, 195

  Schoenberg, Arnold, 91–92, 93, 94, 96, 98, 101, 103, 115, 129, 132, 235, 277, 280, 281, 315; Adorno on, 176, 182, 332, 336; Strauss and, 258–60, 265, 295; works: “Franz Liszts Werk und Wesen,” 95, 114; Harmonielehre, 96; Herzgewächse, 207; Kammersymphonie, 302n71; “Six Songs,” 92; string quartets, 107, 108; Verklärte nacht, 104

  Schoolfield, George C., 77, 79

  Schreker, Franz, 281

  Schubert, Franz, 43, 56n146, 298n11, 321; Der Tod und das Mädchen, 105

  Schumann, Robert, 52n58

  Scriabin, Alexander, 30, 268; Prometheus: Poem of Fire, 44, 127, 153n9

  Scruton, Roger, 184n4

  sculpture, 267, 273, 277, 279; architecture and, 285; memorial, of Sibelius, 338–53

  Second Viennese School, 332

  Serov, Valentin, 38 Ševik Quartet, 107

  Seyn, Frans, 24

  Shakespeare, William, 188, 190, 191, 193, 196–97, 216, 335n39; Cymbeline, 197; Hamlet, 195–97; The Tempest, 73n16, 74, 75, 111, 187, 189–91, 193–96, 198, 208, 211, 213, 214, 218, 220–21, 224n29, 225n49; Timon of Athens, 193, 196; Twelfth Night, 188; The Winter’s Tale, 197

  Shaw, George Bernard, 139, 155n49, 195

  Shemeikka, Petri, 316

  Sibelius, Aino (née Järnefelt; wife), 17–19, 105, 113, 160, 164, 189, 223n18, 228

  Sibelius, Christian (brother), 117, 189, 238

  Sibelius, Christian Gustaf (father), 189, 238

  Sibelius, Jean: Adorno on, 125, 175–83, 240, 331–37; alcoholism of, 186, 223n18, 308; Americans and, 158–66; architectural analogy to, 227–32, 235–42, 245–51, 281, 282, 284–91, 293–96; British reception of, 125–31, 150–52; butterfly metaphor of, 89–92; compositional process of, 60–63, 68–71; creative silence of later years of, 151, 186–87, 189, 251, 256–57, 339; death of, 257, 340; diary of, 17, 24, 28–29, 49, 57n193, 71, 87n10, 92, 96, 98–99, 104–5, 107, 119, 188–90, 196, 221, 267, 331; family of, 189, 238; fictional depiction of, 307–14; and Finnish nationalism, 3, 16–18, 20–21, 48–49; folk tradition and, 31–33, 36, 40, 44–45, 49, 55n126, 75, 97, 136, 315–24, 325n10; legacy of, 186–87; letters of, 19, 31, 70–71, 90–91, 96–99, 107, 113, 161, 163; marriage of, 17, 18; masculine charisma of, 131–34; modernity of, 91, 93–100, 148–49; monument to, 338–53; music studies of, 19, 24, 46, 47, 62, 98, 101, 119, 159, 164, 259, 274, 307–8, 315; nature and landscape evoked by, 173–75, 232–33, 239, 240, 266–71, 277, 327–30; at Paris Universal Exposition, 47–48, 227, 231–32; personality of, 3, 17, 86n4, 135, 186, 329; psychological distress and creativity of, 238–39, 251; racial theory and, 134–40, 144–50; Russian influences on, 3–5, 17–19, 24–32, 37–47, 49; Strauss contrasted with, 256–61, 296; Swedish linguistic and cultural background of, 17; symbolism of, 75, 111, 113–14, 116–17, 119, 190, 195, 218, 267; villa of, 59, 93, 104, 161, 165, 166, 171n28, 254n48, 300n43, 301n66; visual constructs of, 266–76, 296–97; in Young Finland group, 228

  Sibelius, Linda (sister), 189, 238

  Sibelius, Maria Charlotta (née Borg; mother), 117, 238

  Sibelius, Pehr (uncle), 274

  Sibelius Academy (Helsinki), 72n4, 117, 326

  Sibelius Museum (Turku), 72n4

  Sibelius Society, 333, 342

  Siloti, Alexander, 25, 38, 53n87

  Sinding, Christian, 159, 164, 169n3, 333

  Sjöblom, Paul, 170n21

  Sjögren, Anders Johan, 10

  Smetana, Bedich, Má vlast, 271

  Snellman, Johan Vilhelm, 7, 228

  Snellman, Ruth, 193

  Social Darwinism, 137, 146–47

  Socialist Realism, 25

  Sollas, William Johnson, 139, 156n61

  Sonck, Lars, 149, 254n48, 276, 300n43, 301n66

  Sousa, John Philip, Stars and Stripes Forever, 167

  Soviet Union, 3, 25, 227, 241, 243, 254n65

  Spencer, Herbert, 137; The Principles of Biology, 155n47

  Speransky, Mikhail, 9

  Spiering, Theodore, 159, 161

  Spiro, Jonathan Peter, 139, 155n54, 156n61

  Spitzer, Leo, 245

  Ståhlberg, K. J., 349

  Stalin, Joseph, 25, 254n65

  Stanford, Charles Villiers, 142, 156n73

  Stasov, Vladimir V., 25, 38, 126

  Stevenson, Ronald, 94

  Stock, Frederick, 160

  Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 114, 115

  Stockholm Exhibition (1930), 235

  Stoeckel, Carl, 162

  Stoeckel, Ellen Battell, 162

  Stokowski, Leopold, 166

  Stone, Dan, 131; Breeding Superman, 140

  Storr, Antony, 234, 235, 239

 
Strauss, Richard, 56n153, 96, 99, 256–67, 264, 274, 282, 295, 296, 297n5, 299n16, n18; Adorno on, 258; and language, 261–65, 275, 299n26; Romanticism of, 30, 258, 261; works: Die ägyptische Helena, 265; An Alpine Symphony, 263, 265, 270–72; Ariadne auf Naxos, 299n21; Capriccio, 262, 263, 265; Daphne, 265; Death and Transfiguration, 119; Don Juan, 29, 265, 298n11; Elektra, 263, 265; “From the Workshop of an Invalid,” 259; Guntram, 262; Ein Heldenleben, 265; Die Liebe der Danae, 265; Metamorphosen, 119; Oboe Concerto, 259; Der Rosenkavalier, 256, 260, 263, 264; Salome, 109, 265, 328; Die schweigsame Frau, 263; string quartets, 107; Symphonia domestica, 261; Till Eulenspiegel, 328

  Stravinsky, Igor, 28, 44, 49, 54n104, 108, 133, 194, 235, 258, 277; absolutist aesthetic of, 295–96; Adorno on, 152, 182, 183, 334; neoclassicism of, 38, 41; The Firebird, 40; Petrouchka, 192; Symphony in E-flat, 40

  Strengell, Gustaff, 232–34

  Strindberg, August, 75, 308; Röda Rummet (The Red Room), 308

  Stupel, Alexander, 3, 32

  Sullivan, Louis, 287

  Svecoman movement, 16, 326

  Svendsen, Johan, 161, 307

  Svenska Dagbladet (newspaper), 24

  Svinhufvud, Pehr Evind, 349

  Sweden, 7–9, 11, 13, 31, 165, 230, 243, 322; linguistic and cultural influence in Finland of, 11, 15–17, 24, 31, 76, 77, 135–36, 139, 154n40, 233, 238, 239, 257, 281, 325

  Swedenborg, Emanuel, 290

  Swedish Theatre (Helsinki), 76

  symbolism, 111, 116–17, 119, 190, 195, 220, 228, 337n6; in architecture, 234, 242, 245, 282, 284, 285; color-sound, 267–68; French, 77; nature, 113, 119, 218, 240; Nazi, 181; phallic, 132; in plays, 75, 81, 86n4

  Symposium circle, 190

  synesthesia, 111–12, 308

  Taft, William Howard, 162

  Taine, Hippolyte, 195

  Taneyev, Sergey, 28, 38

  Tanzberger, Ernst, 114, 115

  Tarasti, Eero, 27, 54n100

  Tarlanov, Z. K., 55n127

  Taruskin, Richard, 20, 41, 43

  Tawaststjerna, Erik, 4–6, 42–45, 56n153, 107, 128–29, 132, 175, 209, 223n18, 231, 235, 241, 267, 302n81, 316, 327; on Russian influences, 25–27, 38, 52n58; on Tempest music, 187–91, 194, 225n53

  Tchaikovsky, Modest, 126

  Tchaikovsky, Pyotr, 3, 24–32, 37, 39–41, 46–48, 52n58, 53n89, 57n180, 126, 144, 161, 163; works:Francesca da Rimini, 29, 30; Hamlet, 30; Romeo and Juliet, 29, 30; Sérénade mélancolique, 46; Serenade for Strings, 20, 28; Souvenir de Florence, 28; Symphony no. 2, 40; Symphony no. 4, 32, 35, 40, 43, 55n126; Symphony no. 6 (Pathétique), 4, 26, 28, 29, 32, 34, 57n181; Violin Concerto, 40; The Voyevoda, 27

  Tenishev, Prince Vyacheslav, 231

 

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