The music is said to display an astounding richness of imagination and inventive capacity, and is considered by some as one of Sibelius's greatest achievements. He represented individual characters through instrumentation choices: particularly admired was his use of harps and percussion to represent Prospero, said to capture the "resonant ambiguity of the character".
Librettist | (incidental music to Shakespeare's The Tempest) |
Date of composition | 1926 (1925-1926) |
Premiered | 1926, March 15th in Copenhagen, Denmark |
Type | Incidental music |
Catalogue | Op. 109 |
Approx. duration | 60 minutes |
Instruments | Orchestra |
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