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Jean Sibelius
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Composer (Music Score), Featured Music, From Ballet by, Songwriter Born: December 8, 1865 in Hämeenlinna, Finland Death: September 20, 1957 in Järvenpää, Finland Biography:The music of this Finnish master is filled with rich lyricism and orchestral timbres that evoke the spirit of northern countries, expressing intimate reactions to an expansive world. Throughout WWII, Sibelius' hymn to his homeland Finlandia was played by orchestras as a protest against the fascist invaders, and was often retitled a nocturne or somehow otherwise camouflaged but audiences knew what was intended. This music was heard, often uncredited, in several wartime films, and occurred in the television series The Pallisers (1974) and in Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990).
Excerpts from Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 are heard throughout "Paragraph 175" (1999) as many aging gays recall the horrific oppression of homosexual men and some lesbians under the Nazis employing an old law known as Paragraph 175 originally enacted in 1879. Even gossip and innuendo, or a single touch, were considered ev... Full Biography
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