Jean Sibelius: Theme and Variations
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Jean Sibelius: Theme and Variations

for solo celloFIRST PUBLICATIONA work that was probably never performed in public during Sibelius’s lifetime. It dates from 1887 when Sibelius was 21 years, and the music owes much to Bach in terms of its style, although the theme on which the variations are based has a certain Finnish-Nordic flavour. It was refound and performed…