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Martin Wegelius (10 November 1846 – 22 March 1906) was a Finnish
Martin Wegelius in 375 humanists – 6 May 2015. Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki.
' 1846 births 1906 deaths Finnish classical composers Romantic composers Finnish musicologists Swedish-speaking Finns Finnish male classical composers Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery Finnish music educators 19th-century Finnish musicians 20th-century Finnish musicians 20th-century male musicians 19th-century male musicians 20th-century Finnish composers 19th-century musicologists {{Finland-composer-stub
Martin Wegelius (10 November 1846 – 22 March 1906) was a Finnish composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
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and musicologist, primarily remembered as the founder, in 1882, of the Helsinki Music Institute, now known as the Sibelius Academy.
Wegelius studied in Leipzig, Vienna and Munich. He had intended to pursue a career as a composer, and wrote handful of orchestral works and a significant number of chamber and vocal works. He was a particular admirer of Wagner but wrote predominantly in the Romantic
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style. After founding the Institute he had little time for composing, and appears to have concentrated exclusively on teaching. Graduate of Wegelius' Institute include Jean Sibelius and Agnes Tschetschulin.
He is often compared with his contemporary and rival Robert Kajanus, founder of the Helsinki Symphony Orchestra, the first professional symphony orchestra in the Nordic countries.
He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery
The Hietaniemi cemetery ( fi, Hietaniemen hautausmaa, sv, Sandudds begravningsplats) is located mainly in the Lapinlahti quarter and partly in the Etu-Töölö district of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is the location for Finnish state ...
in Helsinki.
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*https://web.archive.org/web/20071202074336/http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/mainframe?readform&EAF0ABD4336C7AFDC2256D790037EAA7Further reading
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*Martin Wegelius in 375 humanists – 6 May 2015. Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki.
' 1846 births 1906 deaths Finnish classical composers Romantic composers Finnish musicologists Swedish-speaking Finns Finnish male classical composers Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery Finnish music educators 19th-century Finnish musicians 20th-century Finnish musicians 20th-century male musicians 19th-century male musicians 20th-century Finnish composers 19th-century musicologists {{Finland-composer-stub