From lament to success story: the Society of Finnish Composers at 50
From lament to success story: the Society of Finnish Composers at 50
Finnish composers got together to form a society immediately after the war, in 1945. The following is a resume of the history of the first half decade of the Society of Finnish Composers, written in 1995 by Erkki Salmenhaara (1941–2002), at the time Associate Professor of Music at the University of Helsinki.