![]() In 1889 Sibelius left Finland to pursue his studies abroad – first in Berlin and then in Vienna. He also befriended the composer and conductor Robert Kajanus and the pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni. He numbered many future luminaries of Finnish culture among his friends, among them the authors Adolf Paul and Juhani Aho. It was during his student years in Helsinki that Janne – now using the ‘music name’ Jean – met and fell in love with Aino Järnefelt. His music from these years displays a seemingly inexhaustible melodic fecundity as well as an increasingly secure and original sense of form. ![]() It was not long before the law studies were quietly dropped, and he started official composition studies under Martin Wegelius. In 1885 Janne finished school and moved to Helsinki, nominally to study law, although he also enrolled at the Music Institute. 1875) is believed to be his first surviving composition. Vattendroppar ( Water Drops) for violin and cello (c. Music was encouraged at home, and before long Janne was improvising and composing pieces of his own. Although the language spoken at home was Swedish, Janne attended Hämeenlinna’s pioneering Finnish-speaking grammar school. His father died when ‘Janne’ was only two. Jean Sibelius was born in Hämeenlinna, Finland, on 8th December 1865, the second of three children.
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