Tapiola
Tapiola. Tone-poem for orch., Op.112, by Sibelius, comp. 1925–6 to commission by NY Sym. Soc. who gave f.p. in NY 1926, cond. W. Damrosch. F.p. in England London 1928. Tapio was god of Finnish forests.
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