The Snowshoed Sibelius

[Cato]

I wonder if the young host was working at a college radio station? 

PD

Many moons ago, from a college radio station which played classical music, I heard the announcer say:

"And now, the Symphony #2, by Gene Cybil Leeus."       

[vers la flamme]

Is there a good biography/life-and-works type book of Sibelius out there?

[Madiel]

I had my eye on the one by Andrew Barnett but I don't THINK I've actually read it...

[Scion7]

Is there a good biography/life-and-works type book of Sibelius out there?

I have these - I greatly enjoy the man's work but am not a fanatic and have not poured over these tomes in the same manner I would for, say, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, etc.  One day I suppose I need to spend a week and read them cover to cover. 

Sibelius - Andrew Barnett
Sibelius: A Composers Life and the Awakening of Finland - Glenda Goss
Sibelius: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers - David Burnett-James
Sibelius - Robert Layton

There is the New Grove entry on him, of course - fairly extensive.

I wish that R.A. Leonard had done a whole chapter on Sibelius in his authoritative book, The Stream of Music, but we just have his short entry:

[vers la flamme]

I have these - I greatly enjoy the man's work but am not a fanatic and have not poured over these tomes in the same manner I would for, say, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, etc.  One day I suppose I need to spend a week and read them cover to cover. 

Sibelius - Andrew Barnett
Sibelius: A Composers Life and the Awakening of Finland - Glenda Goss
Sibelius: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers - David Burnett-James
Sibelius - Robert Layton

There is the New Grove entry on him, of course - fairly extensive.

I wish that R.A. Leonard had done a whole chapter on Sibelius in his authoritative book, The Stream of Music, but we just have his short entry:

Thanks!