Jean Sibelius at Home 1927/1945 with Aino, Heidi and Margareta (Historic Footage)
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- This historic clip shows Jean Sibelius at his home, Ainola. The first moving images of Jean Sibelius dates from the spring of 1927, when he was filmed at Ainola by the Finnish cinematographers Heikki Aho and Björn Soldan. Aho and Soldan were the sons of the noveliest Juhani Aho, and had grown up in the close vicinity of Sibelius and his family.
In the 1927 film, we see an urbane and relaxed Sibelius on the Lake Tuusula road. The images are striking: in his bowler hat, the composer has a casual, Anglo-Saxon air which differs from later portrayals of the Karsh-ian Sibelius as the brooding and forbidding musical titan.
The documentary also provides intimate glimpses of family life at Ainola: we see a happy Aino in the role of home-maker and her daughters picking apples in the garden (one runs up the path that would eventually lead to Sibelius's final resting place). Their father reads the newspaper and contentedly puffs on his cigar.
In one scene, Soldan's camera catches the composer at work at the piano; another shows his daughter Margareta playing a violin solo, caught against the light filtering through a window.
In 1945, shortly before his 80th birthday, Sibelius agreed to be filmed again by a Finnish film team. This time, Aho and Soldan show us a very different Sibelius, the aged composer watching the forests, cranes and lakes, full of autumnal nostalgia.
(Adapted from a text (c) Ilkka Kippola 2010 - from the Sibelius Edition Vol. 13)
No commercial purpose is intended with the use of this clip. All rights belong to (c) Aho & Soldan (www.ahosoldan.com). For more clips, you can visit the invaluable pages of www.sibelius.fi...
In uploading this clip, I seek only to promote the music of Finland's greatest composer and showcase his life. For more info, please visit dustofhue.com and / sibelius.jean or sibeli.us.
How lovely. You can still visit his house just outside Jãrvenpää just outside Helsinki. Doesn't appear to have changed much and I highly recommend.
What a wonderful treat , to see the Mighty Finn at home , at ease and playing his music !
Two set violin, why I’m here, excellent! 🎻🎻
Love him so much :) How amazing it would be to hear him play piano or violin, something we are never going to see or hear, it's kinda sad...
in the end the narrator says: "over misty wilds, shallow deserts rises a proud figure: the valiant crown of the giant pine humming chords of the sacred - the eternal treasure of tunes"
^roughly translated. it's quite difficult to translate because the language is highly poetic and some of the words don't have exact counterparts in english and because it is metered and structured in a way that doesn't work in english; the language, intonation and meter give themselves a kind of meaning to the poem.
Reminiscent of "Widespread they stand, the Northland’s dusky forests, / Ancient, mysterious, brooding savage dreams; / Within them dwells the Forest’s mighty God, / And wood-sprites in the gloom weave magic secrets." (Sibelius' inscription on the title page of Tapiola.)
schlesmail could very well be the same poem. i was translating it myself...it's impossible to translate accurately.
Enjoyed actually seeing Sibelius and the beauty around Ainola! Loved watching him puff on his cigars! Thank you!
WHAT A GREAT FILM ! THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE 🎹❤❤❤
During the winter war food was scarse. A dear friend of mine who passed away was about 10 at the time and lived close by. With her two little friends they would walk up to Ainola and would sit on the ground under Sibelius open window as he played the piano. Shortly after he started leaving three apples for them to find each morning.
Watching this video I got choked up, those apples…he was kind of grumpy but still aware of those young children.
Eventually my friend’s family was killed by the Russians before her eyes and she remained in her home alone throughout ww2, those apples meant more than Sibelius would have ever imagined.
Fantastic to see this!!
Very nice, thank you.
He seems so...animated.
very interesting video
Not only the world was black and white but also the musicians walked on top hat and white tie in Finland back then.
Nice 👍👋
What is spoken at the end?
What's the name of the song which starts in 4:33 ?
That's from the Romance for Violin & Piano, Op. 78, No. 2.
The old wowan at the beginning of the film looks like Cosima Wagner.
🙏💖🇫🇮
What is this songs name in The beginning of video?
The Finlandia hymn!
Jag är släkt med honom
first piece? symphony?
Finlandia - specifically the central hymn.
Nec plus ultra - kiitos Leon Chia.