Aarre Merikanto
Aarre Merikanto (29 June 1893 – 28 September 1958) was a Finnish composer.He was born in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, the son of Elise "Liisa" Häyrynen (1869-1949) and the famous romantic composer, professor Oskar Merikanto (1868-1924). His childhood he spent in Vilppula, Finland. He married Meri Grönmark in 1919. They had two daughters, Anna Marjatta Peltonen (née Merikanto) and Arma Kyllikki Tukia (née Merikanto). He later married Evi Sylvia Mähönen (1910-1968). They had two sons, Ukri Uolevi Merikanto (1950-2010), a sculptor and Pan Ylermi Merikanto (1951-2012). He is considered a key figure in early Finnish modernism (together with Väinö Raitio and Ernest Pingoud) and several of his works, most notably the opera Juha, have obtained posthumous attention. As professor of composition in the Sibelius Academy (1951–1958) Merikanto taught several Finnish composers of the next generation, including Einojuhani Rautavaara, Usko Meriläinen, Aulis Sallinen and Paavo Heininen.
He studied music in Helsinki 1911, Leipzig 1912–1914 and Moscow 1916–1917. Merikanto's early style was rooted in Finnish romanticism, but in the 1920s he developed a personal, atonal but not dodecaphonic Modernist style. The reception of Merikanto's works of this period was mixed: the "Schott" Concerto for nine instruments was awarded in a competition organized by the German publishers Schott & Söhne, but his domestic Finnish audiences and critics were generally unenthusiastic and his opera Juha, today considered one of his major works, was never performed during Merikanto's lifetime. Disappointed with the reactions, starting in the early 1930s, Merikanto gradually abandoned his more radical style and turned towards a more traditional idiom based on Neoclassicism. He also destroyed or mutilated the scores of several works from his earlier style period, some of which were later reconstructed by his last composition student Paavo Heininen. His work was also part of the music event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Merikanto was diagnosed with lung cancer in the summer 1957, and he died on 28 September the following year, in Helsinki, aged 65. Provided by Wikipedia
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Yksinlauluja = Solosånger = Lieder / by Merikanto, Aarre, 1893-1958
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Symphonies 1 & 3 by Merikanto, Aarre, 1893-1958
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Pan works for orchestra / by Merikanto, Aarre, 1893-1958
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Piano concerto no. 2 Piano concerto no. 3 ; Two studies for small orchestra ; Two pieces for orchestra (1941) / by Merikanto, Aarre, 1893-1958
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Symphonies 1 & 3 by Merikanto, Aarre, 1893-1958
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Concerto for violin, clarinet, French horn, and string sextet Nonet ; Works for male voice choir / by Merikanto, Aarre, 1893-1958
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Juha by Merikanto, Aarre, 1893-1958
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Sinfonia concertante ; Cello concerto, no. 2 by Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953
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Twentieth-century Finnish piano music II
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Aurora borealis magic of the mysterious north.
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Finnish chamber music.
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Hommage à Alfred Kordelin.
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Pictures from Finland Kuvia suomesta.
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Songs and orchestral music by Kuula, Toivo, 1883-1918
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Aurora borealis the magic of the Northern Lights.
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