Neither a biography, nor a musicological study, this book that the composer Eric Tanguy has dedicated to the late Finnish composer Sibelius invokes both Sibelius’s music and Tanguy’s love of it. To do that, Tanguy has chosen 10 of Sibelius’s works that matter to him most and devoted a chapter to each one. In this way, moving amongst a range of musical genres, the reader delves into the intelligence of Sibelius’s art, at the very heart of the unique intimacy that links one composer to another.

The composer Eric Tanguy speaks about Sibelius’s music and his genius, as well as about what Sibelius’s music means to him today, through ten of the Finnish composer’s works.