Abandoned early symphonic project by Jean Sibelius (1891)
Overture in E major & Ballet Scene
Abandoned symphony by Jean Sibelius
The composer (c. 1891)
Catalogue
JS 145 and 163
Composed
1891
Publisher
Fazer Music [fi] (1997)[1]
Duration
11 minutes (JS 145)[2]
8 minutes (JS 163)[3]
Premiere
Date
23 April 1891 (1891-04-23) (JS 145)[2]
28 April 1891 (1891-04-28) (JS 163)[3]
Location
Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland
Conductor
Robert Kajanus
Performers
Helsinki Orchestral Association
The Overture in E major and Ballet Scene (in French: Scène de ballet),[a] respectively JS 145 and 163, are two single-movement works for orchestra written in 1891 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius while he was a postgraduate student studying in Vienna.[1] The Overture received its premiere on 23 April 1891 in Helsinki with the Finnish conductor Robert Kajanus conducting the Helsinki Orchestral Association;[2] five days later, Kajanus and his orchestra premiered Ballet Scene.[3] Sibelius, who remained overseas, was unable to attend either concert. (Shortly after mailing the manuscripts to Finland, Sibelius was overcome with self-doubt and had written to Kajanus begging, to no avail, to have the pieces removed from the program.)[4][5]
The Finnish conductor Robert Kajanus (left) premiered both the Overture in E major (ad right) and the Ballet Scene
The Overture and Ballet Scene are notable for two reasons. First, they are Sibelius's earliest compositions for orchestra (prior to them, he had mainly written chamber music, pieces for solo piano, and a few songs), which eventually became his chosen medium of artistic expression. Second, Sibelius had conceived of the two pieces as Movements I and II in a first symphony, although he abandoned this ambition in April 1891 and converted them into stand-alone concert items. The Overture and Ballet Scene thus demonstrate that, already in Vienna, Sibelius was thinking symphonically, and indeed, a year later in 1892, he premiered the five-movement choral symphony Kullervo (Op. 7). The Symphony No. 1 in E minor (Op. 39) arrived in 1899.
^ abDahlström 2003, pp. 588, 600.
^ abcDahlström 2003, p. 588.
^ abcDahlström 2003, p. 600.
^Tawaststjerna 2008, pp. 88–93.
^Barnett 2007, pp. 66–67.
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