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“The calculation of prosesses is a source of inspiration”

by Risto Nieminen16 Aug 1986

Magnus Lindberg, 28, is among the most internationally successful of young Finnish composers. This year his orchestral work KRAFT took 1st prize in the Unesco International...

“Ich habe zu reden. Ich hebe die Hände”

by Lauri Otonkoski16 Aug 1986

Although still only 28, Esa-Pekka Salonen probably needs little introduction for anyone with even a moderate interest in classical music, since he has already gained what...

Paavo Heininen — Composer, cosmopolitan, controversialist

by Jouni Kaipainen13 Jun 1986

Paavo Heininen got down to a serious composing career, geared from the outset towards large works, at a relatively early age. This beginning came in the...

Aarre Merikanto - a battered genius

by Harri Suilamo13 Mar 1986

With the works he wrote in the 1920s Aarre Merikanto (1893-1958) together with Ernest Pingoud and Väinö Raitio, planted the seed of modernism in Finnish music....