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had not yet reached its definitive form, which arrived in 1919.) The 17 December 1918 premiere of
Madetoja's Second Symphony similarly impressed Sibelius, who was again in attendance. (Upon his mother's death in 1934, Madetoja retroactively dedicated the Second Symphony to her.) At this time,
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this ain't". As for the performers, Godell gives the advantage to Volmer and the Oulu
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celebrations, Kuula got into an altercation with a group of White Army officers and, in the heat of the moment, was shot to death, dying on 18 May. These two losses deeply upset
Madetoja and likely found expression in the symphony; the epilogue Madetoja affixed to the work is one of pain and
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either; it has come to visit us, to snatch one of us as its victim. Oh when will we see the day when the forces of hatred vanish from the world and the good spirits of peace can return to heal the wounds inflicted by suffering and misery?
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on 17 December 1918. The critics received the premiere enthusiastically and, thus, the new piece firmly established
Madetoja as the vanguard of Finnish music. In 1934, Madetoja (retroactively) dedicated the symphony to his late mother.
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Tom Godell singles out the Second as the composer's "greatest symphony", describing the first movement as "richly melodic", the second movement as a "barbaric
Andante" modeled on the second movement of Sibelius's
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