Editing Jean Sibelius (section)

===Move to Ainola===
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In November 1903, Sibelius began to build his new home [[Ainola]] (Aino's Place) near [[Lake Tuusula]] some 45&nbsp;km (30 miles) north of Helsinki. To cover the construction costs, he gave concerts in Helsinki, Turku and Vaasa in early 1904 as well as in Tallinn, Estonia, and in Latvia during the summer. The family were finally able to move into the new property on 24 September 1904, making friends with the local artistic community, including the painters [[Eero Järnefelt]] and [[Pekka Halonen]] and the novelist [[Juhani Aho]].<ref name=wod/>

In January 1905, Sibelius returned to Berlin where he conducted his Second Symphony. While the concert itself was successful, it received mixed reviews, some very positive while those in the ''Allgemeine Zeitung'' and the ''Berliner Tageblatt'' were less enthusiastic. Back in Finland, he rewrote the increasingly popular ''[[Pelléas et Mélisande (Sibelius)|Pelléas and Mélisande]]'' as an orchestral suite. In November, visiting Britain for the first time, he went to [[Liverpool]] where he met [[Henry Wood]]. On 2 December, he conducted the First Symphony and ''Finlandia'', writing to Aino that the concert had been a great success and widely acclaimed.<ref name=fya>{{cite web |title=The first years in Ainola 1904–1908 |work=Jean Sibelius |publisher=Finnish Club of Helsinki |url=http://www.sibelius.fi/english/elamankaari/sib_ainola.htm |access-date=28 October 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924101614/http://www.sibelius.fi/english/elamankaari/sib_ainola.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1906, after a short, rather uneventful stay in Paris at the beginning of the year, Sibelius spent several months composing in Ainola, his major work of the period being ''[[Pohjola's Daughter]]'', yet another piece based on the ''Kalevala''. Later in the year he composed incidental music for ''[[Belshazzar's Feast (Sibelius)|Belshazzar's Feast]]'', also adapting it as an orchestral suite. He ended the year conducting a series of concerts, the most successful being the first public performance of ''Pohjola's Daughter'' at the [[Mariinsky Theatre]] in St Petersburg.<ref name=fya/>