Jean Sibelius

Higgs has put together a motley melange of Childish's work: Downstairs one will find paintings of mountains and volcanos, as well as an homage to Germain mountaineer Toni Kurz, who died tragically scaling the North Face of the Eiger, and classical music composer Jean Sibelius.

Susan Michals: Billy Childish Talks Van Gogh and His Definition of the Word "Amateur" Susan Michals 2011

Higgs has put together a motley melange of Childish's work: Downstairs one will find paintings of mountains and volcanos, as well as an homage to Germain mountaineer Toni Kurz, who died tragically scaling the North Face of the Eiger, and classical music composer Jean Sibelius.

Susan Michals: Billy Childish Talks Van Gogh and His Definition of the Word "Amateur" Susan Michals 2011

He flirted with Symbolism, notably in "Symposium" 1894: four men at a table littered with bottles and glasses, one asleep, the others—the artist and Finnish composers Robert Kajanus and Jean Sibelius—staring at a half-seen, giant-winged apparition representing the mystery of art.

Finnish Landscapes in Paris Judy Fayard 2012

He famously told fellow composer Jean Sibelius that a symphony must be "like the world -- it should embrace everything."

Albert Imperato: Gustav Mahler's Life-Changing Music 2010

As Jean Sibelius said, not without a twinge of sarcasm, “not everyone can be an innovating genius.”

Reversing Damage 2010

From Jean Sibelius: Dagbok, 1909-1944, edited by Fabian Dahlström Atlantis, Helsinki, 2005:

Voces intimae - 1 David McDuff 2009

From Jean Sibelius: Dagbok, 1909-1944, edited by Fabian Dahlström Atlantis, Helsinki, 2005:

Archive 2009-11-01 David McDuff 2009

With her brave approach to topical, polemic issues Canth was a constant target of conservative critics, especially clergymen, but at the same time her home in Kuopio attracted such writers and artists as Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Jean Sibelius, K.A.

Minna Canth Matterhorn 2009

It's an odd number bars, and you know, I listen to people like Jean Sibelius and - people who wrote these long flowing melodies and found, you know, found a personal comfort in - in that type of thing.

Booker T. Jones: Onions, Potatoes, Other Essentials 2009

In 1934 a young American named Lloyd Stone wrote a poem inspired by Jean Sibelius '"Finlandia Hymn."

David Wallechinsky: Inaugural Address 2009