The Sibelius anniversary

[sawyl]

I dont know about anyone else, but it seems to me to be quite amazing that it's only fifty years — the anniversary is tomorrow — since the death Jean Sibelius. I know that he stopped composing in the mid 1920s and went on to be fairly ancient, but somehow he feels like he comes from a completely different era so the realisation that he only died in 1957 seems rather remarkable.