SIBELIUS: ADAGIO IN D MINOR JKV SCORE

SIBELIUS: ADAGIO IN D MINOR   JKV   SCORE

For in the Adagio Sibelius is already leaving behind his student days bound to tradition. The tonality is questioned right at the beginning, the chords are groping, and not until after bar 20 does the movement arrive at a clear cadence in the main key. Nor is the form of the work unambiguous, since Sibelius is already trying to combine different forms. Thus the rondo-form Adagio also has traces of development and variations.

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