I don’t know how good your French is, but it’s obvious René Leibowitz wasn’t as much of a Sibelius fan as I am. Tell us what you really think, René! For the record, Leibowitz, a Schoenberg disciple, also dismissed Béla Bartók for pandering to popular taste with works like his Concerto for Orchestra. I haven’t read Leibowitz’s monograph, but I have to hand it to him, it’s got one of the great titles. Sibelius was still alive, by the way. He died in 1957 at the age of 91. But it’s Sibelius who had the last laugh. Royalties earned from his compositions continue to be among the highest of all classical music composers currently within copyright.
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Happy birthday, Jean Sibelius!
“Sibelius: The Worst Composer in the World”
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