in G minor, for string quartet (1888–89)., for string quartet, in: G minor E-flat major A minor and, E minor (1887).in B minor, for string quartet (1885) completed by Kalevi Aho.A handful of compositions, which primarily date from Sibelius's student years, are without either catalogue designation they are thus reserved for a supplementary list that follows the sortable table.Įxtracted and arranged by the composer from Op. 26 For works without opus numbers, the convention is to follow the supplemental JS numbering system of Fabian Dahlström. The final list of opus numbers, therefore, is an imperfect indicator of his stylistic maturation over time.
Throughout his career, he continually curated the collection according to his ever-changing assessment of his own oeuvre, promoting works to or demoting them from the catalogue and filling the resulting availabilities without a strict regard for compositional chronology. Within the concertante and chamber genres, the Violin Concerto and the string quartet Voces intimae (each in D minor), respectively, ensure Sibelius's reputation.īeginning in 1896, Sibelius began to keep a personal catalogue of his works. (He famously abandoned his operatic ambitions in the 1890s.) Other notable orchestral works include the Karelia Suite, Valse triste, and Rakastava. Sibelius also frequently composed for the stage, and his scores for Nordic productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest and Maeterlinck's Pelléas and Mélisande are particularly admired. His 16 examples in the form (with Lemminkäinen disaggregated) span the duration of his career and include not only two of his most popular works, The Swan of Tuonela and Finlandia, but also some of his most critically acclaimed: En saga, Pohjola's Daughter, Luonnotar, The Oceanides, and Tapiola. In addition, Sibelius was a significant contributor to the symphonic poem repertoire. (An eighth symphony likely was destroyed by the composer in the late 1930s.) In addition, the choral work Kullervo and the orchestral suite Lemminkäinen-both based upon Kalevala myths-are classified occasionally as unnumbered, programmatic symphonies. Most highly regarded as a composer for the orchestra, the core of Sibelius's oeuvre is his set of seven symphonies, the last of which (in one movement) erodes the traditional subdivisions of sonata form. Sibelius composed across many genres, and his oeuvre includes large-scale orchestral compositions, chamber music, songs, piano pieces, and choral works. The compositional career of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius extended over eight decades, from juvenilia and unpublished works written in the 1870s and 1880s to his final works of the 1940s the 1890s–1920s, however, represent the key years of his activity.
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