Pelléas and Mélisande
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 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.