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sfsymphony-org-5075		San Franciso Symphony - Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Opus 105			.html	text/html	1509	146	68	THE BACKSTORY In 1918, Sibelius was not only completing his Fifth Symphony and beginning his Sixth; he was also getting underway with his Seventh, which would ultimately bring his symphonic output to a close. Work proceeded in parallel for some while, but not until Sibelius signed off on his Sixth could he focus on his Seventh Symphony without distraction, which he did for a further thirteen months. Sibelius makes clear that, when his Seventh Symphony was in its early stages, he sensed that it would comprise three separate movements. "Its ad hoc structure," he writes, "emerges link-by-link from the transformational processes of the musical ideas themselves—a content-based form constantly in the process of becoming." Elsewhere in his article on the composer he proclaims the Seventh Symphony to be "surely Sibelius's most remarkable compositional achievement."	./cache/sfsymphony-org-5075.html	./txt/sfsymphony-org-5075.txt