(Jan Sibelius: born in Tavastehus, Finland, December 8, 1865; now living in Helsingfors)
"THE SWAN OF TUONELA""LEMMINKAINEN'S HOME-FARING"
Sibelius, sometime prior to February, 1906, informed Mrs. Rosa Newmarch, the author of the first authoritative study in English of the Finnish composer, that he was writing a symphonic poem in four parts under the general title "Lemminkainen," based on episodes in "The Kalevala."[134]Two of these parts have been produced—"The Swan of Tuonela" and "Lemminkainen's Home-Faring"; the others are said to be still (1907) incomplete. Of the two completed portions Mrs. Newmarch writes as follows: