The “draw on all staves” is a nice touch. I’m sure many people laughed about the tuplets, they still haven’t fixed it! (Although I appreciate the progress they made). While they have made numerous other improvements (64 bit, XML import/export etc), they don’t seem willing to fix the notation problems that still exist. Sibelius has made little attempt to improve the engraving since version 6. Rothman’s opinion: “On the other hand, if you’re concerned primarily with engraving, and are lightning fast with your keyboard shortcuts to navigate around the score already, you can skip the upgrade”. As a longtime Sibelius user it’s what I expected, especially Mr. And yet numerous statements by the composer and numerous facts, set out by Jean-Luc Caron in a very detailed article, show that Sibelius did not support Nazi Germany.Thanks for the info and the excellent review by Mr. In 1942, the propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, founded the "German Sibelius Society". The following year, Adolf Hitler awarded him the Goethe Medal on his 70th birthday. In 1934, Sibelius was invited to play a part in the Permanent Council for International Cooperation among Composers, chaired by Richard Strauss. The issue of Sibelius's "accommodating" attitude is regularly revived, sometimes just for the sake of sensationalism, but is based on the Nazis' interest in the composer. Adorno associated Sibelius's music with National-Socialist ideology and implied that the composer was a Nazi sympathiser. Vesa Sirén, the journalist and biographer of Jean Sibelius, believes the cool reception given to the Finnish composer for some decades can be attributed, in part, to the writings of Theodor Adorno in Germany. His association with Nazism is controversial Worse still, when the renowned conductor initially told the orchestra of his plan to perform Sibelius's complete symphonies, the committee scoffed at the idea. In 2010, when Sir Simon Rattle conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the Finnish composer's symphonies, an article in the Guardian rehabilitated the poor opinion held of Sibelius: the German orchestra had never played this symphony in the 128 years since it was written. The German philosopher and sociologist Theodor Adorno considered Sibelius's music vulgar and reactionary: "If Sibelius is good, this invalidates the standards of musical quality that have persisted from Bach to Schoenberg". The composer and expert in music theory René Leibowitz made no bones of writing a paper in 1951 entitled "Sibelius, the worst composer in the world". Today Jean Sibelius undeniably belongs to music's elite, but his work has not always been universally admired. He almost joined the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra This uncle ship owner, who died of yellow fever in 1860, left behind him a large stock of business cards, which young Johan Julius Christian decided to use for himself, hence the name "Jean". It was common practice in Scandinavian countries to take a French first name, but the choice of "Jean" can be traced back to his uncle Johan, who had adopted the name Jean for himself. As he wrote to a friend in 1886: "Jean is the name I use as a musician". It was the composer himself who adopted the name Jean Sibelius. The composer was born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius, but has gone down in musical history under the first name Jean. His first name comes from a business card autographe Jean Sibelius had his first music lessons from his aunt and, at the age of 10, composed his very first work at the piano: Water Droplets for violin and cello. It was he who gave young Jean his first violin, when he was 10, and encouraged him to start composing. Jean Sibelius, who lost his father when he was three, was greatly influenced by his uncle, Pehr Ferdinand Sibelius, an amateur violinist.