Composer and academician Joonas Kokkonen (1921–1996) examined in 1990 Sibelius's often ambivalent position – on the one hand the object of exaggerated hero worship, on the...

Composer, musicology Professor emeritus Mikko Heiniö's article on Jean Sibelius's historical significance was first published in FMQ in 1990.

I am approaching the age when you begin to reflect on the fundamentals of life and feel the need to pare away all inessentials. For that...

”The accordion is the arch enemy of folk music. It kills any musical tendencies the nation may have, ravages the ear and drags down musical taste....

Ernest Pingoud was an exceptional figure in Finnish music. During the 1920s and 1930s there can have been no other composers in the country whose works...

"Art should be able to stir us, to wake us from our dreaming and our torpor, so that we should be forced to take a stand...

America had Bing Crosby, Britain Al Bowlly, France Maurice Chevalier. In the pre-war years, every country had a charming gentleman singer who entertained us on records,...

Each generation of composers, every single composer, has, either deliberately or intuitively, been forced to solve the problems of how to combine the vertical elements of...

Jukka Tiensuu – composer, harpsichordist, pianist and musician: “I feel equally at home with music of all periods, and with different musical genres. If you want...