I find it amazing

 

Sibelius 1865-1957

 I'm a terrible composer of music; well of anything that takes a prolonged effort (not really but that's whatI like to think).  Therefore, I admire people who write books and compose big pieces of music. We are talking quality work, not junk.  The really good ones write from their souls, as if something from outside flows into them, they digest it and out it springs, perfectly penned ink on paper.

about 10 seconds of the symphony below

Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer, a national hero by the way and a gifted composer. He wrote music that sounds like Finland....or Finnish music sounds like Sibelius.  The muse flowed into him and out of him like an expressway and he got it right. On the all time rankings, well, perhaps not even a top ten but in Finland, he is the cat's meow and always will be.

Writing a symphony is a lot of work.  It has to, or should, make sense from beginning to end.  So before pen hits manuscript paper, you better have it pictured out in your head otherwise when you get to the end of it, there might be a giant disconnect from the beginning of it...changing boats in mid-stream so to speak.

The work below may require you put this on "background" listening as it is 30+ minutes long. It is one long thought. 

I find it amazing.