Not surprisingly there have been quite a few books about Sibelius. But which have influenced your thinking the most? Or contributed most to your knowledge/appreciation of Sibelius? Or maybe you prefer to go biography-less?

Veijo Murtomaki

Symphonic Unity: The Development of Formal Thinking in the Symphonies of Sibelius

I know, not a biography, but the Sibelius book that is always open on my desk.

My favourite biography is still to come...

Actually this might sound a bit sad but the one that's always open on my desk (it doesn't even have a place on the bookshelf) is Fabian Dahlström’s Jean Sibelius: Thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke (2003). ‘Only’ a catalogue but with so much meaty information in it…