The Winds of History Blow in Ontario: On Sibelius’s Second Symphony
The Winds of History Blow in Ontario: On Sibelius’s Second Symphony A Philosophical Impression of Symphony No. 2 (1902) by Jean Sibelius, the Finnish Composer Farid Saberi Some Preliminary Notes: April 5th, a sunny and pleasant spring day in London, I got lucky, a friend of mine offered me to go to this classical music performance which (being a busy graduate student) I had no idea was going on. I put on my spring coat and got the bus there. There were two works planned to be performed. Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Sibelius' Second Symphony . The following are my philosophical impressions and the notes that I was making while listening to the second Sibelius' work. I wrote the notes in Farsi and here I have translated them into English. The only reason I went to this concert was Beethoven (my ultimate all-time favorite composer). I had no knowledge of Sibelius and his work. In the end, I ended up being captured by his second symphony and writi...
