Jean Sibelius completed his Seventh Symphony in 1924 and then, over the following three decades until his death in 1957, produced almost nothing. The so-called "Ainola silence" — named for his Finnish estate — has never been satisfactorily explained, though drafts of an abandoned Eighth Symphony were reportedly burned in his fireplace sometime in the 1940s.
Jean Sibelius completed his Seventh Symphony in 1924 and then, over the following three decades until his death in 1957, produced almost nothing. The so-called "Ainola silence" — named for his Finnish estate — has never been satisfactorily explained, though drafts of an abandoned Eighth Symphony were reportedly burned in his fireplace sometime in the 1940s.