Erkki Aaltonen (17 August 1910 – 8 March 1990) was a

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composer.

Biography

Born in

Hämeenlinna Hämeenlinna (; sv, Tavastehus; krl, Hämienlinna; la, Tavastum or ''Croneburgum'') is a city and municipality of about inhabitants in the heart of the historical province of Tavastia and the modern province of Kanta-Häme in the south of F ...

(Tavastehus),

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, he was a student of the

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at the Helsinki Conservatory and of

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in privacy with

Väinö Raitio Väinö Eerikki Raitio (15 April 1891, in Sortavala, Grand Duchy of Finland – 10 September 1945, in Helsinki) was part of the small group of composers who appeared in the Finland, Finnish art music scene in the 1920s with a new cosmopolitan mus ...

and Selim Palmgren. He directed the Kemi Music Institute from 1966 to 1973. His musical selections were often of a topical nature.

Selected works

*Symphonies :No. 1 (1947) :No. 2 (1949) ''Hiroshima'' :No. 3 (1952) ''Popular'' :No. 4 (1959) :No. 5 (1964) ''

rhapsody'' *Piano Concerto 1948 *Piano Concerto 1954 *''Folk music'' for orchestra 1953–1960 *Ballet suites from ''Lapponia'' 1956, 1959 *Violin Concerto (1966) *Piano Sonata (1932, revised 1972) *Oboe Sonata (1945) *''Preludi ja allegro'' (Prelude and Allegro) for viola and piano (1983) *five string quartets *piano pieces *songs

References

1910 births 1990 deaths People from Hämeenlinna People from Häme Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish classical composers 20th-century classical composers Finnish male classical composers 20th-century Finnish male musicians 20th-century Finnish composers {{finland-composer-stub