西贝柳斯(1865—1957)是芬兰最伟大的作曲家,民族乐派的奠基者,也是十九——二十世纪之交欧洲最重要的音乐家之一。他出身于外科医生家庭,直到二十岁后才开始献身于音乐。从赫尔辛基音乐学院毕业后,曾到柏林、维也纳等地考察、留学,博采众长融成富 Sibelius (1865-1957) is Finland’s greatest composer, the founder of the national music school and one of the most important musicians in Europe at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was born in a surgeon’s family and did not begin to devote himself to music until after the age of twenty. After graduating from the Helsinki Conservatory of Music, he visited Berlin, Vienna and other places to study, study abroad,