Sibelius ultimate is it worth it7/3/2023 ![]() Pingoud was of Russian origin and had immigrated to Finland from St Petersburg in 1918, in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. The consequences did not fail to reveal themselves, and new life emerged: new Finnish music, more or less independent from Sibelius, was born. A new phenomenon, nevertheless, showed up: the mountainous overall shape of Sibelius’s output came to be seen in a new light, or perhaps from a different perspective, and where its shadow had once fallen, new curious searchlights begun to play their games. Sibelius’s output, cherished and tended by reverent hands, did not lose a tad of its value on the contrary, it secured an officially-sanctioned eternal value and still flourishes in all its beauty. In an essay on ‘the youngest Finnish music’ from 1928, the composer Ernest Pingoud (1887–1942) refers to the ‘reappraisal of certain values’ during the First World War, notably to the ‘bankruptcy of Romanticism’ in the field of aesthetics. It is difficult to establish who was the first to mention ‘Sibelius’s shadow.’ The idea pops up in the 1920s at the latest.
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