#ainola

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#cottage country #cottagecharm #cottagecore #photo of the day #daily photo #nature #rural photography #garden #moss #charming old house #mosscore #original photography #photographers on tumblr #farmcore #farm #ainola #finland

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Ainola, Finland - Jean and Aino Sibelius' place.

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#Ainola #classical music #Finland #Jean and Aino SIbelius marriage #music #Sibelius #sibelius 5th Symphony.

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Jean Sibelius: A voyage of discovery

Is anything more beautiful than the symphonies of Sibelius? Well, of course – from time to time. Two of these uplifting works are just over 100 years old, but they sound as fresh and bracing as the landscapes from which they were hewn. Continue reading Untitled

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#Ainola #Barbirolli #Davis #fourth #Sibelius #symphony #third

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OTD in Music History: Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957) dies peacefully at his iconic home (named "Ainola" after his beloved wife Aino) in Järvenpää, Finland, a few weeks shy of his 92nd birthday. One of the greatest musical nationalists of the 20th Century, Sibelius remains a Finnish cultural icon who is widely recognized as one of the most important symphonists of the modern era. Sibelius’s international fame can be traced back to the tremendous success of his ever-popular tone poem "Finlandia" in 1899, and his stature only continued to grow during the next decade. His good friend Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1923) premiered his 2nd Symphony in Berlin in 1901, and noted British composer Granville Bantock (1868 - 1946) commissioned his 3rd Symphony in 1907. The justly-famous Violin Concerto (1903) also dates from this early period, although Sibelius didn’t published what are arguably his finest works -- the 5th Symphony (1919), the 6th Symphony (1923), the 7th Symphony (1924), and the tone poem "Tapiola" (1925) -- until after World War I. But then came the silence. For the last 30 years of his life, Sibelius suffered from one of the most monumental writers' blocks in musical history. He produced next to nothing, although rumors (some stoked by Sibelius himself) continued to swirl that he was preparing an 8th symphony. According to his wife, one day in the mid-1940s, the elderly Sibelius got drunk and then sat down and burned a tremendous amount of manuscript material in the fireplace at Aino -- and that was that. He apparently found this bonfire to be cathartic, and no substantial manuscripts were found after his death a decade later… PICTURED: A c. 1950's headshot photograph of Sibelius, which he has signed and inscribed "An das Sinfonie-Orchester des N.W.D.R. in Dankbarkeit." (The North West German Radio Symphony Orchestra was a radio orchestra founded by British occupation authorities after World War II.)

This historic clip shows Jean Sibelius at his home, Ainola. The first moving images of Jean Sibelius dates from the spring of 1927, when he was filmed at Ainola by the Finnish cinematographers Heikki Aho and Björn Soldan. Aho and Soldan were the sons of the noveliest Juhani Aho, and had grown up in the close vicinity of Sibelius and his family. In the 1927 film, we see an urbane and relaxed Sibelius on the Lake Tuusula road. The images are striking: in his bowler hat, the composer has a casual, Anglo-Saxon air which differs from later portrayals of the Karsh-ian Sibelius as the brooding and forbidding musical titan. The documentary also provides intimate glimpses of family life at Ainola: we see a happy Aino in the role of home-maker and her daughters picking apples in the garden (one runs up the path that would eventually lead to Sibelius's final resting place). Their father reads the newspaper and contentedly puffs on his cigar. In one scene, Soldan's camera catches the composer at work at the piano; another shows his daughter Margareta playing a violin solo, caught against the light filtering through a window. In 1945, shortly before his 80th birthday, Sibelius agreed to be filmed again by a Finnish film team. This time, Aho and Soldan show us a very different Sibelius, the aged composer watching the forests, cranes and lakes, full of autumnal nostalgia.

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Ainola, home of Aino and Jean Sibelius. It has been a museum since 1974.

#finland #järvenpää #scenery #summer #jean sibelius

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Day 1 Finland - Helsinki, Järvenpää and Ainola

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What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially fascinated by the houses of the famous and often long-dead? In Lives of Houses, notable biographers, historians, critics, and poets explores these questions and more through fascinating essays on the houses of great writers, artists, composers, and politicians of the past.

Editors Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee are joined by wide-ranging contributors, including Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, David Cannadine, Roy Foster, Alexandra Harris, Daisy Hay, Margaret MacMillan, Alexander Masters, and Jenny Uglow. We encounter W. H. Auden, living in joyful squalor in New York’s St. Mark’s Place, and W. B. Yeats in his flood-prone tower in the windswept West of Ireland. We meet Benjamin Disraeli, struggling to keep up appearances, and track the lost houses of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen. We visit Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh, England, and Jean Sibelius at Ainola, Finland. But Lives of Houses also considers those who are unhoused, unwilling or unable to establish a home—from the bewildered poet John Clare wandering the byways of England to the exiled Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera living on the streets of London.

With more than forty illustrations, Lives of Houses illuminates what houses mean to us and how we use them to connect to and think about the past. The result is a fresh and engaging look at house and home.

Featuring ●Alexandra Harris on moving house ● Susan Walker on Morocco’s ancient Roman House of Venus ● Hermione Lee on biographical quests for writers’ houses ● Margaret MacMillan on her mother’s Toronto house ● a poem by Maura Dooley, “Visiting Orchard House, Concord, Massachusetts”—the house in which Louisa May Alcott wrote and set her novel Little Women ● Felicity James on William and Dorothy Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage ● Robert Douglas-Fairhurst at home with Tennyson ● David Cannadine on Winston Churchill’s dream house, Chartwell ● Jenny Uglow on Edward Lear at San Remo’s Villa Emily ● Lucy Walker on Benjamin Britten at Aldeburgh, England ● Seamus Perry on W. H. Auden at 77 St. Mark’s Place, New York City ● Rebecca Bullard on Samuel Johnson’s houses ● a poem by Simon Armitage, “The Manor” ● Daisy Hay at home with the Disraelis ● Laura Marcus on H. G. Wells at Uppark ● Alexander Masters on the fear of houses ● Elleke Boehmer on sites associated with Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera ● Kate Kennedy on the mental asylums where World War I poet Ivor Gurney spent the last years of his life ● a poem by Bernard O’Donoghue, “Safe Houses” ● Roy Foster on W. B. Yeats and Thoor Ballylee ● Sandra Mayer on W. H. Auden’s Austrian home ● Gillian Darley on John Soane and the autobiography of houses ● Julian Barnes on Jean Sibelius and Ainola

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Sibelius string quartets

It has recorded a wealth of Finnish music, including string quartets by Sibelius ( ODE 773-2) and the string quintet and two string quartets by Einojuhani Rautavaara ( ODE 909-2). Sibelius wrote his string quartet Intimate. In Voces Intimae, that’s set up perfectly in the opening question and answer: there’s no grand statement, or positivity here, and that’s reinforced by the obsessive way that Sibelius turns around his limited material, and by the Dante Quartet’s refusal to. The kind of thing that brings a smile to your lips at the hour of death. The Quartet is equally at home with Haydn and Mozart as with contemporary composers and has collaborated with Sofia Gubaidulina, Aulis Sallinen, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Jouni Kaipainen, Erik Bergman, Haridas Greif and others. These quartets all come from composers wrestling with personal problems: for Smetana his deafness, and for Sibelius his depression. Cellist Seppo Kimanen also acts as the Artistic Director of the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival. The Quartet has performed at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival every year since 1981 and undoubtedly ranks today among the most sought-after quartets in Scandinavia. In 1991 the Quartet won the prize of the Chilean music critics for the best performance by an international ensemble in Chile, and in 1998 the award of the international critics at the Cracow Contemporary Music Days. The Quartet was awarded a three-year grant by the Finnish state in 1985. The first two are the product of Sibelius student years. Since making its international breakthrough at the West Berlin Music Festival in 1983, it has visited most parts of Europe, India, China, South Korea, Chile, Japan and the United States. Sibelius composed three string quartets prior to his well-known Voces intimae in D minor. These words are an evident proof of this observation of Sibelius's biographer Harold Johnson who wrote: 'Voces intimae neither palys nor sounds like a string quartet. The following year already brought invitations to appear at several Finnish and Swedish music festivals. The Jean Sibelius Quartet - Yoshiko Arai and Jukka Pohjola (violins), Teemu Kupiainen (viola) and Seppo Kimanen (cello) - was formed in 1980 and granted the right by the Sibelius estate to use the name of the Master of Ainola.

#Sibelius string quartets

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Mr. and Mrs. Sibelius sitting on a garden bench on a summer evening, 1940-1945, Järvenpää.

Sibelius-puolisot kesäiltana kasvitarhan penkillä, 1940-1945, Järvenpää. (Santeri Levas)

#jean sibelius #1940s #finland #ainola #composer

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Ainola, meaning "Aino's place", was the home of the composer Jean Sibelius, his wife Aino and their family from the autumn of 1904 until 1972.

"Fortunate fate has bestowed upon the writer of these lines the joy of spending much time with Jean Sibelius. As his private secretary, I have often visited Ainola, and become acquainted with the maestro as a person. These have been the greatest moments of my life; every time I left Ainola, I felt spiritually invigorated and my mind was light. As I now attempt, with a pen and a camera, to portray the master of Järvenpää, his family and his home, I do so, being very aware of the many shortcomings in my work. It is not easy to depict a spiritual giant, whose personality is as great as his artistic ability." Santeri Levas, September 1945 (x)

#jean sibelius #aino sibelius #ainola #suomi #finland #santeri levas #40's #photography #history #*

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Dahlias and pansies.

#i love the colors #in the garden #dahlias #pansies #flowers #flower photography #photographers on tumblr #garden #garden photography #original photography #ainola

[wolfie-wolfgang]

A moving moment coming here to Lake Tuusula near Sibelius’ house in Ainola, Finland. A day spent at the great composer’s house, visiting his grave and seeing the room where so many of his works were written. The lake pulled out all the stops today, showing Finland in all its late summer beauty. Not to be forgotten. #visitfinland #suomi #sibelius #laketuulusa #ainola (at Tuusulanjärvi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiViotpqidl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#visitfinland #suomi #sibelius #laketuulusa #ainola

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Day of two museums: 1. Ainola, "Aino's Place", the home of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, his wife Aino and their family from the autumn of 1904 until 1972. 2. Anti-aircraft defence museum in Tuusula. In Elmo’s words: ”Best thing in Ainola was blueberries”. 🐞The kids preferred the latter museum because there was more room to see, do and especially to run. Parents liked them both. 👍🏻👍🏻We have to get back another time without the two little ones. • • #museokortti #museumcard #ainola #visitjärvenpää #järvenpää #ilmatorjuntamuseo #kapteeninpuustelli #visittuusula #tuusula #kotiseutumatkailua #lähellä #lapsetmatkustaa #perhereissaa #lastenkanssa #retkikohde #museot (at Ainola) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCg9DI3hczI/?igshid=4z83a2wpo5ei

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[katsujiiccfinds]

Havannah

by SimplySimlish

Havannah is ranch-style luxury. It's two bedrooms and two baths make it perfect for newly-weds and small families. Enjoy the outdoors from within the three seasons sunroom and be the envy of the neighborhood with your expansive outdoor pool and hot tub area. Havannah is playtested, sim approved. There is no custom content included, nor is any required to play this lot. However, in order for this home to look like it does in the pics the following is recommended: Pattern: PC Texture Pattern Set 01 by PeacemakerIC at Peace's Place Custom Content (cc) Build objects used, not included: Ainola Wall Horizontal Panels (used right, left and center sections) by Alxandra78 on TSR Simpler Times Screen Windows from the TS3 Store Nordic Windows by Lisen801 on MTS CC Buy objects used, not included: Tilton Bedroom Set by Lulu265 on TSR New Vintage Kitchen Items by Gosik on TSR (used cupboard and cooker hood) MZ_Stand Alone Shower - Modern by missyzim on TSR Deeiutza ModernBrightDiningRoomVases by Deeiutza on TSR HalfTallFramed Kitchen Wall Art by SimsArtGallery at Wordpress DOT AF7091 Recess Lighting by DOT on TSR Blue Living Curtains by Lulu265 on TSR Ebony Bedroom Mirror by Lulu265 on TRS Stacked Planters at the TS3 Store Mid-Century Modern Bathroom Collection at the TS3 Store - only some decorative objects used from this collection Thanks to the cc creators!   The following games were installed for this build, but are not required for this lot to work. The game will automatically replace any objects from missing expansion or stuff packs. Expansion Packs: Ambitions Generations Into the Future Island Paradise Late night Pets Seasons Showtime Supernatural University Life Stuff Packs: High End Loft Stuff Master Suite Stuff Outdoor Living Stuff Town Life Stuff Game Version 1.69 Lot Size: 40x40 Lot Price (furnished): 125,349 Lot Price (unfurnished): 72,762

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#lots #ts3 #ts3cc #s3cc #residential lot #home:furnished #tagged by @katsujiiccfinds

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Ainola, Finland

#original photography #suomi #finland #nature #original photographers #finnish #photography #autumn #oulu #summer #spring #dog #puppy #kleinspitz

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John Zurier - Ainola (Sibelius)

Glue-size tempera and oil on linen, 66 × 86.5 cm, 2018

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