Jean Sibelius, the Andante festivo. Oh. Sooo beautiful. Go to 1:25 and 2:40 to hear my favorite parts of this piece, it sounds like the sun coming up. 1925 It sounds like a hymn, at the end is the "amen," but, as the title indicates, it was originally composed as festival music, festival!, to celebrate...a...sawmill works.Sibelius redid it at the request of a New York Times music critic as "Finland's greeting to the world to celebrate the new year" on January 1, 1939. 1939: the darkest year in the twentieth century. Sibelius redid it as a prayer. He definitely slowed it down but the 1925 version was already too slow to be festive. This is too slow to be a hymn! Sibelius conducted this recording himself. January_1_1939