Sibelius Symphony No. 2

In 1901, in the throes of the Finnish Independence movement, Jean
Sibelius composed his legendary 2nd Symphony. Sibelius’ close
colleague, the conductor Robert Kajanus, said that the symphony
"strikes one as the most broken-hearted protest against all the
injustice that threatens at the present time to deprive the sun
of its light and our flowers of their scent." But is the symphony
actually about Finnish Independence? Or was it simply, as
Sibelius said, “a confession of the soul”? Join us for a deep
dive!