{"id":7070,"date":"2011-11-15T12:11:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T20:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=7070"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:57:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:57:48","slug":"sibelius-eighth-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/15\/sibelius-eighth-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"sibelius’ eighth symphony?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jean Sibelius<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alex Ross writes about a musicologist in Finland who thinks they have found sketches and other materials that might have eventually turned into Sibelius’ Eighth Symphony. Click here<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Ross writes about a musicologist in Finland who thinks they have found sketches and other materials that might have eventually turned into Sibelius’ Eighth Symphony. Click here for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[167],"tags":[2382,2858,2857,2859],"class_list":["post-7070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition","tag-alex-ross","tag-eighth-symphony","tag-sibelius","tag-sketches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1Q2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7575,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/09\/sibelius-an-mahler\/","url_meta":{"origin":7070,"position":0},"title":"sibelius & mahler","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"[In October 1907] Sibelius met the composer Gustav Mahler, who was visiting Helsinki. 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