On This Day July 2

The strong nationalist sentiment conveyed in Jean Sibelius' music was deemed an expression of patriotism in Finland. Sibelius' tone poem Finlandia was composed when his country was under Russian domination and premiered in Helsinki on July 2, 1900 with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society. The work was banned by the Russian rulers of Finland because it aroused much patriotic fervor among the Finns. In Berlin it was played as 'Vaterland'; in Paris as 'Patrie'.

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