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Otto Emanuel Andersson (27 April 1879 – 27 December 1969) was a Finnish musicologist.
Andersson studied first at the Helsingfors musikinstitut (now the Sibelius Academy), becoming a teacher there. He studied folklore and music from 1908 onwards, and gained his Ph.D. in 1923 at the
Andersson, Otto
in ''Biografiskt lexikon för Finland''
Andersson, Otto
in ''Uppslagsverket Finland'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Andersson, Otto Emanuel Finnish musicologists Finnish male composers Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Academic personnel of the Ã…bo Akademi University University of Helsinki alumni 1879 births 1969 deaths 20th-century Finnish male musicians 20th-century Finnish educators
Otto Emanuel Andersson (27 April 1879 – 27 December 1969) was a Finnish musicologist.
Andersson studied first at the Helsingfors musikinstitut (now the Sibelius Academy), becoming a teacher there. He studied folklore and music from 1908 onwards, and gained his Ph.D. in 1923 at the University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish ''Ã…bo'') in 1640 as the ...
. From 1926 on he held the Robert Mattsons chair in musicology and folklore at the Ã…bo Akademi
Turku ( ; ; sv, Ã…bo, ) is a List of cities and towns in Finland, city and former Capital city, capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura (Archipelago Sea), Aura River, in the region of Southwest Finland, Finland Proper ...
. In 1906 he formed the Brage Society, dedicated to Finland's Swedish folk music and culture, serving later as the group's chairman and choirmaster.
Andersson founded three music magazines, wrote a variety of valuable essays and collected and arranged traditional Swedish, Finnish and Estonian folk songs and dances. He also served as a contributor to the ''Svensk uppslagsbok'' dictionary, producing music-related entries.
Selected works
*''Violinists and Dance-tunes Among the Swedish Population of Finland Towards the Middle of the Nineteenth Century''. Novello, 1912 *''Svensk uppslagsbok
''Svensk uppslagsbok'' is a Swedish encyclopedia published between 1929 and 1955, in two editions.
First edition
The first edition was started in 1929 by ''Baltiska förlaget AB'', but publishing was taken over by ''Svensk uppslagsbok AB'' in 1 ...
'' (Swedish Dictionary). Lund 1929
*''The bowed-harp: a study in the history of early musical instruments''. W. Reeves, 1930
*''On Gaelic Folk Music from the Isle of Lewis''. 1953
*''Ballad Hunting in the Orkney Islands''. Budklaven, 1954
*''The Shetland Gue, the Welsh Crwth, and the Northern Bowed Harp''. 1956
References
External links
*Andersson, Otto
in ''Biografiskt lexikon för Finland''
Andersson, Otto
in ''Uppslagsverket Finland'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Andersson, Otto Emanuel Finnish musicologists Finnish male composers Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Academic personnel of the Ã…bo Akademi University University of Helsinki alumni 1879 births 1969 deaths 20th-century Finnish male musicians 20th-century Finnish educators