Sibelius (film)
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| Original title | Sibelius |
| Country of production | Finland |
| original language | Finnish , German , Swedish |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 116 minutes |
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| Director | Timo Koivusalo |
| script | Timo Koivusalo |
| production | Timo Koivusalo, Tom Forsström |
| music |
Jean Sibelius , Osmo Vänskä |
| camera | Pertti Mutanen |
| cut | Timo Koivusalo, Jyrki Luukko |
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Sibelius is a Finnish biography film from 2003 . His theme is the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius .
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While Johan Julius Christian ("Jean") Sibelius is still a child, his father Christian dies; the family faces financial ruin and has to sell their property. The young Sibelius finds a new father figure in his uncle Pehr.
At the beginning of his music studies with Martin Wegelius , Sibelius took the first name of his uncle Jean, who died a long time ago. Plagued by self-doubt, he switched to law studies, on the advice of his professor he returned to the music that was close to his heart, while he was not interested in law.
Sibelius meets Aino , daughter of the art patron Elisabeth Järnefelt and his future wife; Sibelius also came into contact with composers such as Robert Kajanus and Ferruccio Busoni . Aino is impressed by the works of his writer friend Juhani Aho. During a one-year scholarship mediated by Wegelius in Berlin in 1889, he had to deal with the critical claims of his teacher Albert Becker . Sibelius deepens his friendship with the writer Adolf Paul . His uncle Pehr dies during his time in Berlin.
On his return from Berlin, Sibelius proposes marriage to the delighted Aino. Shortly after the engagement, he went to study in Vienna, where he made important social contacts. There, however, his plans to pursue a career as a violinist fail. Sibelius is plagued by jealousy when it is discovered that Juhani Aho has processed his affection for Aino in a novel.
When Sibelius is back in Finland, he and Aino get married. Sibelius celebrates a first success with his symphonic poem Kullervo . Soon the first daughter Eva will be born. When in 1894 the Russian Alexander III. dies, Sibelius's friends worry about how Russian supremacy in Finland will develop under the new Tsar Nicholas II .
The Sibelius family grows with the birth of more daughters; Sibelius, however, focuses entirely on composing, which leads to upset in the marriage. A little later, Sibelius' mother Maria dies. Sibelius and Kajanus defy increasing Russian censorship in a performance of Sibelius' patriotic symphonic poem Finlandia .
On the other hand, Sibelius will soon have to cope with the loss of his daughter Kirsti, who dies of typhus. During the Sibelius family's stay in Rapallo, Italy, one of the surviving daughters fell ill, but recovered to the relief of the family. Sibelius composed his Second Symphony in Rapallo , the premiere of which was a great success. The Sibelius couple ran into financial problems when they built their own house - Ainola - by Lake Tuusulanjärvi . Sibelius' sick sister has to go to a sanatorium; Sibelius himself suffers from ringing in the ears and the consequences of his drunkenness; Sibelius gives up smoking and drinking after tumor surgery.
After composing the King Christian suite, Sibelius wrote the Jäger-March for the troops fighting against Russia as part of the October Revolution . In the wake of the unrest, the Red Army searched his house for weapons. Due to the composition of the hunters march , Sibelius has to flee with his family.
In old age Sibelius burned his drafts for an Eighth Symphony .
Web links
- Sibelius in the Internet Movie Database (English)