Porin Lyseo (Pori Lyceum) is a school in

Pori Pori (; ; ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Satakunta. It is located on the west coast of the country, on the Gulf of Bothnia. The population of Pori is approximately , while the Pori sub-region, sub-region has a population of a ...

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, consisting of the upper part of

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and gymnasium. The school was founded in 1879 as the successor of 1640 established Pori

Trivial School Trivial schools (, ; from Latin ''trivium'') were schools in Sweden and its integrated part Finland from the early 17th century, in Sweden to 1905. Trivial schools were the second grade of education in the 1649 school reform of Queen Christina. F ...

. The main building was originally constructed 1857 by the design of architect Georg Theodor von Chiewitz. It was expanded in 1895, the wing with art classes and

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was built 1995. The school also contains an English medium where lessons are taught in both Finnish and English.

Notable alumni

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Pori Trivial School partbooks

1725 copied Pori Trivial School partbooks were found in the Pori Lyceum's library in 1908. They include

polyphonic Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice ( monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords ...

church music of the 16th and 17th century by composers like

Melchior Vulpius Melchior Vulpius (c. 1570 in Wasungen – 7 August 1615 in Weimar) was a German singer and composer of church music. Vulpius came from a poor craftsman's family. He studied at the local school in Wasungen (in Thuringia) with Johannes Steuerl ...

, Gallus Dressler,

Jacobus Gallus Jacobus Gallus (a.k.a. Jacob(us) Handl, Jacob(us) Händl; between 15 April and 31 July 155018 July 1591) was a late-Renaissance composer of presumed Slovene ethnicity.Skei/Pokorn, Grove online Born in Carniola, which at the time was one of the ...

Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (c. 1554 – 4 January 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He is known for his 1591 publication of ''balletti'' for five voices. Career Gastoldi was born at Caravaggio, Lom ...

Hans Leo Hassler Hans Leo Hassler (in German, Hans Leo Haßler) (baptised 26 October 1564 – 8 June 1612) was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of lesser known composer Jakob Hassler. He was born in N ...

and Daniel Friderici. Music of the books was recorded in 2008 by

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group Sonus Borealis.Musiikkia Porin Triviaalikoulun nuottikirjoista – Music from the partbooks of Pori trivial school
Last.fm. Retrieved November 16, 2013.

1918 massacre

During the 1918

Finnish Civil War The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in Finland in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of the country between Whites (Finland), White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (Red Finland) during the country's transition fr ...

11 members of White Guards were shot at the Pori Lyceum schoolyard by

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soldiers. The execution was led by Jan Tuckman who was an

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n seaman in the

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Images

File: Porin triviaalikoulun nuottikirjat, Discantus, Melchior Vulpius Matteus-Passio.jpg, Pori Trivial School Diacantus partbooks, St Matthew Passion by Melchior Vulpius File: Pori Lyceum Memorial.JPG, Memorial of 1918 massacre

References

Secondary schools in Finland Buildings and structures in Pori Educational institutions established in 1879 1879 establishments in Finland {{Finland-school-stub