When Erik Tawaststjerna completed his multi-volume study of Jean
Sibelius (1865-1957) in the late 1980s, it was anticipated that it
would become the definitive source for information about the life
and music of Finland's most revered composer. While there is no
denying the musicological significance of Tawaststjerna's
contribution, one nevertheless searches in vain among the pages of
this monumental work for any discussion of Sibelius's association
with Freemasonry or his "Musique religieuse" (opus 113).
Prior to 1998, only one study of Sibelius's Masonic music had
been published. It was written by Einari Marvia in Finnish, a
language not readily accessible to most scholars. It therefore
seemed appropriate to publish, in English, another study of this
work, one that would draw not only from Marvia's research but also
from a number of newly discovered documents. The author's first
edition of "Sibelius and His Masonic Music" (1998) and its
supplement (1999) has now been revised and presented here in a
single volume.
Those who have expressed an interest in discerning Sibelius's
views of religion will find this study offers considerable
information about that aspect of the composer's life. Opus 113 had
become for him an expression of his belief in the universality of
the Divine, a belief given credence in the beauty and wonder of
nature.
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