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Osmo Tapio Everton Räihälä (born 15 January 1964; name sometimes spelled without umlauts) is a Finnish
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Osmo Tapio Everton Räihälä (born 15 January 1964; name sometimes spelled without umlauts) is 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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of contemporary music. He has mainly written instrumental music for various chamber music line-ups, five concertos (one for mallet instruments, a viola
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concerto, an oboe
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, a cello
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, and a French horn
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concerto) as well as for symphony orchestra.
Life and career
Räihälä was born inSuomussalmi
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() and covers an area of of which is water. The popul ...
. He has studied under Harri Vuori. His best-known work is the 2005 orchestral portrait '' Barlinnie Nine'', a tribute to the Scottish football
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player Duncan Ferguson, then of Everton, whom Räihälä is known to be a supporter of. In 2004, another orchestral tribute, this time to the Islay single malt whisky Ardbeg, was chosen as one of recommended works in the international Uuno Klami
Uuno (Kalervo) Klami (20 September 1900, Virolahti – 29 May 1961, Virolahti) was a Finnish composer of the modern period. He is widely recognized as one of the most significant Finnish composers to emerge from the generation that followed ...
competition. The French horn concerto received the same accolade in 2014.
Apart from the Nordic countries
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, Räihälä's music has been performed in the United States
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, United Kingdom
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, France
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, Netherlands
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, Germany
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, Russia
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and many other countries. The first CD recording of his works, ''Rock Painting
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'', was released in 2006, and the following, '' Peat, Smoke & Seaweed Storm'' in 2014. As of 2015, Räihälä's music is represented by the German publisher Sikorski Musikverlage.
Räihälä's first book ''Miksi nykymusiikki on niin vaikeaa'' hy Is Contemporary Music So Difficultwon the prestigious Finlandia Prize
The Finlandia Prize ( fi, Finlandia-palkinto; sv, Finlandiaprisen) is a set of Finnish literary prizes awarded by the Finnish Book Foundation to "celebrate reading and highlight new Finnish first-rate literature." Considered the most prestigious ...
book award in nonfiction
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category in 2021.
Personal life
Räihälä stated in an interview with ''Sikorski'' magazine that he hassynesthesia
Synesthesia (American English) or synaesthesia (British English) is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who re ...
.https://www.sikorski.de/media/files/1/13/27/10031/sikorski_magazin_4_2015.pdf
Discography
* ''Saatana saapuu Turkuun'' (KACD2001-2, 1999) * ''Chadwick Drive'' (FFCD1025, 1999) * ''Damballa'' (UUCD101, 2004) * ''Rock Painting
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'' (UUCD103, 2006)
* '' Peat, Smoke & Seaweed Storm'' (ABCD367, 2014)
* ''L'homme à la licorne'' (OPTCD-15013, 2015)
* ''Kirkasvetinen'' (AVI8553408, 2018)
* ''Kalliokirskuja'' (WREC1, 2020)
References
External links
Osmo Tapio Räihälä homepage
Räihälä on Boosey&Hawkes's page
Räihälä on Music Finland
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