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If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.
Jean Sibelius
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Jean Sibelius
Age: 91 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 8
Died: 1957
Died: September 20
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Johan Julius Christian Sibelius
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