Sibelius’s dissolute lifestyle leads to the surgeon’s table
his boozing – in itself an exceptionally pleasant occupation – has really ‘Tis gone too far.’ Sibelius wrote these words in 1907, when several decades of self-indulgence and carousing were finally catching up on him. As well as regularly downing liberal quantities of alcohol – one famous painting, Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s , shows the composer, seated with his companions, decidedly the worse
