Allegro molto - Misterioso - Un pochettino largamente - Largamente assai - Un pochettino stretto.Andante mosso, quasi allegretto - Poco a poco stretto - Tranquillo - Poco a poco stretto - Ritenuto al tempo I.This movement is actually a combination of the original 1st movement and 2nd movement from the first version of the symphony. Tempo molto moderato - Allegro moderato (ma poco a poco stretto) - Vivace molto - Presto - Più Presto.It was revised in 1916 and also in 1919, and it is the 1919 version that is usually performed. He finished the score and led the premiere in 1915. He filled the commission with the 5th Symphony. Sibelius received a commission from the Finnish government in honor of his 50th birthday. No doubt his love of nature and the terrain of his native Finland inspired much of his music, whether directly with the tone poems or indirectly with the symphonies. But he developed a highly refined and unique style of orchestration and composition that give his music a certain kind of sound that is like no other. He was a master of orchestration, and despite composing his symphonies in a time of great experimentation with atonality, Sibelius continued to write tonal music. His first great compositional influence was Wagner, but with time Sibelius rejected much of Wagner's esthetic and was then influenced by Anton Bruckner and Pyotr Tchaikovsky. He became a conductor as well as composer. Sibelius' first love was the violin, and he worked towards being a virtuoso, but relented when he decided he had started too late. There were rumors and hints from the composer himself about an 8th symphony, but it was never composed.

He wrote seven symphonies all together, and after his 7th Symphony, Sibelius composed very little for the rest of his life. Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957) was a Finnish composer most known for his symphonies.

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