Erkki Aaltonen (17 August 1910 – 8 March 1990) was a
Finnish
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* Finnish cuisine
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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),
Finland
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, he was a student of the
violin
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at the
Helsinki Conservatory and of
composition
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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) ''
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 ...
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
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