Jon Lewis [[log in to unmask]] wrote:

>I guess we'll never know whether it was sketches or something more
>complete, but Mrs. Sibelius did testify that she found her husband one day
>(in the 1930's sometime? can't recall exactly, coulda been '40's) feeding
>a sizeable manuscript into the fire.

I have read that it was after hearing Wagners Ring (of which he was deeply
impressed) in Germany Sibelius decied that his time was past and he had
done his. Can anyone verify this?

Mats Norrman
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