- A child's death, and international breakthrough, 1900-1902
- At the height of his popularity 1934-1939
- Childhood 1865-1881
- Death and funeral 1957
- Inner voices 1908-1914
- Kullervo and the wedding 1891-1892
- Music becomes a serious pursuit 1881-1885
- Studies in Berlin 1889-1890
- Studies in Helsinki 1885-1888
- Studies in Vienna 1890-1891
- The first years in Ainola 1904-1908
- The last masterpieces 1920-1927
- The silence of Ainola 1945-1957
- The Symposion years 1892-1897
- The Waltz of Death and the move to Ainola 1903-1904
- The war and the destruction of the eighth symphony 1939-1945
- The war and the fifth symphony 1915-1919
- Towards an international breakthrough 1897-1899
- Writing the eighth symphony 1928-1933
