In Jean Sibelius's house, about half an hour north of Helsinki and within sight of haunting Lake Tuusula, there is a massive green fireplace, the height of the dining room. Every brick has been ...

The prodigious young talent has an exclusive recording contract with Decca but his debut – a Sibelius symphony cycle – is frustratingly uneven The Finn Klaus Mäkelä is still only 26, but he has ...

Sibelius’s mighty Finlandia is a triumphant celebration of the ancient beauty of Finland and the proud independence of her people. "It is as if the Almighty had thrown down pieces of a mosaic from ...

The Sibelius Group has announced the Mac OS X release of Sibelius 2, its music notation software. The developer said that its software is the first music notation software to be released natively for ...

In a move that will expand its presence in the consumer education market, Avid Technology, has acquired Sibelius Software., a supplier of music education software, for approximately $23 million in ...

It’s a bit startling to realize that Jean Sibelius has been dead for only 50 years, for he is a figure who seems like part of a deeper past. To put it in stark perspective, he was born in the year ...

Market-leading rivals Sibelius 3.1, from Sibelius, and Finale 2004, from MakeMusic, remain the most full-featured, one-size-fits-all packages available for producing printed musical scores. Choosing ...

Now that society has begun accepting gender as a matter of identity, might we not next adapt a similar flexibility to age identity? Let this week’s Los Angeles Philharmonic program of Sibelius’ last ...

As a young musician, Sibelius had his heart set on becoming a professional violinist. He once said: “My tragedy was that I wanted to be a celebrated violinist at any price. I hated pen and ink. My ...

Sibelius software users have launched a petition asking Avid Technology to sell the music publishing program to another company. Avid closed Sibelius's development studio in Finsbury Park, London, at ...

It's strange to think that Jean Sibelius outlived James Dean. "My life will soon be over," he groaned in 1924. "How infinitely tragic to have to stop when one is just getting started." He was half ...