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Article: The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius.(Book Review)
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The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius. Edited by Daniel M. Grimley. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [xvii, 273 p. ISBN 0-521-81552-5. $75.] Music examples, index, bibliography.
In 1933, at the height of the British Sibelius cult, Ernest Newman wrote, "We of today are much too close to Sibelius ... to attempt anything like a picture of him as the generation of 1960 or 2000 will see him" ("Sibelius: Most Personal of Great Composers [1 October 1933]," in More Essays from the World of Music, rev. ed., selected by Felix Aprahamian [London: John Calder, 1976], 2:117). From the unmitigated adulation of the 1930s, to the ...