Journeys to the United States

Click here to view Sibelius's route to New York.

Route

Helsinki (train) - Turku (boat) - Stockholm (train) - Malmö (ferry) - Copenhagen (train ferry) - Kiel (train) - Hamburg - Bremen - Bremerhafen (s.s. Kaiser Wilhelm II) - Southampton - Cherbourg - New York.

New York (train) - Norfolk - Boston - Norfolk (motor car) - Syracusa - Rochester - Buffalo - Niagara Falls - New York (train) - New Haven (Yale) - New York.

Accommodation

Hotel Essex New Yor,
White House, Norfolk
Hotel Touraine, Boston

Return route

New York (s.s. President Grant) - Plymouth - Cherbourg - Hamburg (train) - Kiel (train ferry) - Copenhagen (ferry) - Malmö (train) - Stockholm (boat) - Turku (train) - Helsinki.

Sibelius conducted a wide selection of his music - including the first public performance of The Oceanides - at the Norfolk Music Festival. He travelled in the United States as the guest of Carl Stoeckel. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Yale University.