Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Finnish composer and musician
Jean Sibelius was a late-Romantic Finnish composer who studied at the Helsinki Music Institute, which has since been renamed The Sibelius Academy. He is primarily noted for his symphonies and tone poems, most famously Finlandia, The Swan of Tuonela and Symphony No 2, but also his virtuoso Violin Concerto, a work regarded as one of the jewels of the repertoire. In 1913, Sibelius wrote the pantomime-ballet Scaramouche, collaborating with Paul Knudsen and Emilie Walbom. It was first performed at the Danish Theatre in 1922, with complimentary reviews of the music, but scathing comments on the production.