From about 1933 onward, he published no music of any significance, nothing but a few trifles and arrangements. Surrounded by fields and birch forests, it befitted the isolation of Sibelius’s later years, when Finland’s most revered musician became a withdrawn, reclusive figure. He called the house Ainola, after his wife, Aino. (Public Domain via the Finnish Club of Helsinki)įrom 1904 until his death in 1957, the composer Jean Sibelius lived some 20 miles north of Helsinki, in a rural villa built of timber and stone on the shores of Lake Tuusula. Jean and Aino Sibelius with Margaret, Catherine, and Heidi at Ainola in the fall of 1915.
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