- Fact 2 - Date of Birth: Sibelius was
born on December 8, 1865
- Fact 3 - Place of Birth:
Hämeenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
- Fact 4 - Full Name: Jean Sibelius
aka Johan (Jean) Julius Christian Sibelius
- Fact 5 - Lifespan: 1865-1957
- Fact 6 - Name of mother and father:
His parents names were Christian Gustaf Sibelius and Maria
Charlotta Sibelius
- Fact 7 - Family background: Middle
class upbringing
- Fact 8 - Childhood and education:
He was a musical child and started to play the piano and
violin at the age of 5. Sibelius had a good education at a
language school and at first studied law at the University of
Helsinki.
- Fact 9 - His passion was music so
he gave up law and completed his education at the Helsinki Music
Institute where he was tutored by Mitrofan Wasileff
- Fact 10 - Following his early he
travelled Vienna and Berlin
- Fact 11 - Sibelius married Aino
Jarnefelt with whom he had six children and worked as a teacher
and conductor
- Fact 12 - Sibelius was inspired by
nationalist feeling
- Fact 13 - In 1897 the state of
Finland voted Sibelius an annual pension to enable him to
concentrate solely on music
- Fact 14 - Sibelius received an
honorary doctorate from Yale University
- Fact 15 - The music of Sibelius is
synonymous with Finnish national identity
- Fact 16 - Date of Death: Sibelius died
on September 20, 1957 in near Helsinki, Finland
- Fact 17 - Sibelius wrote operas, symphonies, orchestral,
chamber, and choral pieces, an opera and piano pieces
- Fact 18 - His music lives on and
the musical works of Sibelius include the following:
- String Quartet in A minor
Kullervo
En Saga
Lemminkäinen suite
Concerto for Violin
Finlandia
Valse Triste
String Quartet in D minor
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