![]() ![]() He wrote to Carpelan, "I shall remove my violin concerto it will not be published until two years have passed. In consequence Sibelius decided that he had to rewrite the work. The critics received the work coolly, unfairly accusing Sibelius of resorting to conventional virtuosity. According to Carl Lindelöf, the leader of the orchestra, Nováček was slow in the rehearsals and complained about the difficulty of the fast passage work. This turned out to be a disastrous change - Nováček was a teacher rather than a performer, and furthermore the concerto was finished too late for extensive rehearsal. However, Burmester was not able - or not willing - to travel to Helsinki, and instead Sibelius engaged Victor Nováček, a Hungarian violinist from the Helsinki Institute of Music. Sibelius had originally dedicated the concerto to the violin virtuoso Willy Burmester, who had agreed to première it in Berlin. The first performance took place on 8th February 1904 in Helsinki. And all the themes are so capable of development, full of life"" He stays awake all night, plays incredibly beautifully, cannot tear himself away from the delightful melodies - he has so many ideas that it is hard to believe it. He has such a multitude of themes in his head that he has been literally quite dizzy. Aino wrote to a friend: "Jean has been on fire all the time (and so have I!) and this time there has once again been an 'embarras de richesse'. At the start of 1904, he was working intensely on it, playing ideas all day and night on his violin. In December 1903 the composer was able to tell his friend and mentor Axel Carpelan that he had completed two movements of the concerto, but that the orchestration of the third movement remained to be done. However, some three years were to pass before he began to work in earnest on it. He told his wife Aino, "I have got wonderful themes for the violin concerto". Sibelius first conceived the idea of writing a violin concerto in 1899, at a period of great musical creativity and productivity for him, when he was already becoming famous as a composer. Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Violin concerto in D minor Opus 47 (1905) ![]()
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