jean sibelius

• beethoven is classical; bach is baroque; rachmaninoff is romantic; debussy is an impressionist, and so on. but to which "school" does jean sibelius belong? romantic? neo-romantic? nationalist? impressionist?sibelius was all of these, yet truly he was none of them. one listens to the striking originality of the master's themes and his innovative use of tonal colour, and one hears only "sibelius." -- robert l. jones