Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Symphony No. 8 (Sibelius)

Symphony No. 8 (Sibelius)

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/December 8, 2015 by — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:09, 21 November 2015 (UTC)



The Eighth Symphony was Jean Sibelius's final major compositional project, occupying him intermittently from the mid-1920s until around 1938. How much of the symphony was completed is unknown; Sibelius repeatedly refused to release it for performance, though he promised the premiere to several leading conductors. Following the success of his Seventh Symphony of 1924, it was expected that his symphonic flow would continue, but after the tone poem Tapiola of 1926, his published output was confined to minor pieces and revisions to earlier works. The Eighth Symphony's destruction was made known after Sibelius's death in 1957, but in the 1990s, while cataloguing the composer's many notebooks and sketches, scholars speculated that fragments of music from the lost symphony may have survived. Several short manuscript sketches have been tentatively identified with the Eighth, three of which (comprising less than three minutes of music) were recorded by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in 2011. The prospect of further reconstruction has generally been discounted; the propriety of publicly performing music that Sibelius himself had rejected has also been questioned.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria on November 4 is currently the most recent music article
 * Main editors: Brianboulton
 * Promoted: 9 September 2013
 * Reasons for nomination: 8 December is Sibelius's 150th birthday, a significant musical anniversary. There is no other Sibelius-related FA that will serve
 * Support as nominator. Brianboulton (talk) 17:06, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support, with pride to show what wiki is capable of. Ceoil (talk) 23:33, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Support, per anniversary. sst✈discuss 10:33, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Support, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:13, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per above. —  Cliftonian   (talk)  15:29, 14 November 2015 (UTC)