The Bard (Sibelius)

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The Bard is a brief tone poem composed in 1913 by Jean Sibelius. The tone poem itself provides a profound, yet cryptic, glimpse of an elegiac, poetic world: an initial, harp-led stillness and reflection are succeeded by elemental, eruptive surges and, finally, a sense of renunciation or maybe death.