Re: Re: Re: Sibelius Symphonies/Tuba parts


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Posted by Janne on August 21, 2000 at 11:54:06:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Sibelius Symphonies/Tuba parts posted by Andrew on August 21, 2000 at 04:57:15:

Iīm a Finnish tuba player (BTW I played the Sibeliusī 2nd symphony 3 weeks ago with the Oulu symphony orchestra).
The reason why Sibelius stopped using the tuba in his symphoies that I heard is that the tuba player always was so drunk so he couldnīt play the music.
That, I think, also is the reason for why for an example in the 2nd sympony, 2nd movement where the tuba has solo with the low strings the first eight in every phrase is missing in the tuba part. itīs written e# a# but it should be f# e# a#. Today all tuba players (at least in Finland) play these phrases the same way as the strings. There are also more places where the tuba is not playing some notes that it should play in unison with the bassoon (also 2nd symphony, 2nd movement).



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