Word: kullervo
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Jean v. Paavo. Politically and by temperament Sibelius is a nationalist. A large number of his early works (Kullervo, the Karelia Suite, Finlandia, et al.) were written as patriotic tributes. Though no one has succeeded in identifying any of his melodies as folk themes, considerable controversy still goes on as to whether he has been influenced by national Finnish idioms. His ancestry contains both Finnish and Swedish strains. Clergymen, doctors, merchants and small landowners, including a few intelligent musical amateurs, were his progenitors. He springs from the great ranks of the bourgeois...