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<\/a><\/p>\nWife Aino (1892-1969) \u00a0 and children Eva, Katarina, Margareta, Heidi, Kirsti, Ruth<\/p>\n
H\u00e4meenlinna is the city of the Great Finnish National Composer Jean Sibelius! Here he was born and here he went to school. Here in our hometown he spent those precious years of childhood and early adulthood. The County of H\u00e4me and the City of H\u00e4meenlinna are always present and keep on living in the music of Jean Sibelius.<\/p>\n
We modern day people of H\u00e4meenlinna have a lot to learn from Sibelius! Very few become a composer- perhaps a bit more become an instrumentalist – and perhaps many more become a singer. But what we all, regardless our musicality, can learn from Sibelius is boldness, creativity and enthusiasm. We can redeem these vital things in many different ways in our lives and in our everyday life. Every one of us can face the challenges of our lives with a boldness and finding the support of other fellow men. We all poses a mighty dose of creativity-\u00a0 we can brake the routine and find a completely new way of doing things! We have the permission and liberty to show enthusiasm in a childlike and in a completely un-Finnish way. We are free in enjoying the wonderful shifts of seasons of the Finnish nature, in showing interest in new people,\u00a0 going crazy of a good concert or being in awe with a new book we are reading.<\/p>\n
We, the people of H\u00e4meenlinna have a wonderful opportunity to be excited of Sibelius, the great composer – genius <\/i>of our hometown! From the music of Sibelius we can find the inspiration to our everyday life as well as the courage to face the future.<\/p>\n
Visiting his old hometown in 1930, Sibelius is reported to have said\u00a0– referring to the view of the natural park of Aulanko: ”These landscapes of my youth were in my mind while composing\u00a0 Finlandia”<\/p>\n