Monumento a jean sibelius biography

It is one of the main Helsinki tourist sites, a place that you will surely visit, or where they will take you if you take a tour of the Finnish capital during a stopover on a Baltic cruise.

I mean the Sibelius Monument, a sculptural group dedicated to Jean Sibelus, the famous Finnish composer of symphonic music who developed all his work in the first half of the 20th century.

You can find this monument to the northwest of the city, in a forest on the shores of the sea that makes up what is also known as sibelius park.

What the Sibelius Monument is like: characteristics

Made in 1967 by Eila Hiltunen, looking at the monument you may think that it is inspired by an organ.

In this sculptural set of more than 600 steel tubes that intertwine in an undulating shape, evoking the music and creativity of Sibelius.

With a height of 8.5 meters, the sculpture resembles a giant organ or tree branches twisted by the wind.

But in reality it seem