Taneli Kuusisto (19 June 1905 – 30 March 1988) 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. Etymology and Defi ...

music critic ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of mus ...

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and choir leader. His son is composer Ilkka Kuusisto, and his grandsons composer

Jaakko Kuusisto Jaakko Ilkka Kuusisto (17 January 1974 – 23 February 2022) was a Finnish violinist, composer, and conductor. Education After initial studies under Géza Szilvay and , Kuusisto went on to win the 1989 , place 4th in the International Jean Sib ...

and musician

Pekka Kuusisto Pekka Kuusisto (born 7 October 1976 in Espoo) is a Finnish musician. Biography Kuusisto comes from a musical lineage. His grandfather was a composer and organist, his father is a jazz musician who has composed operas, and his mother is a music t ...

Filmography

* ''Kirkastettu sydän'' (1943) * '' Ihmiset suviyössä'' (1948) * ''Opus 7'' (1949) * ''Kirkko suomalaisessa maisemassa'' (1956) * ''Tunne maasi'' (1957)

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* 1905 births 1988 deaths Musicians from Helsinki People from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish male composers University of Helsinki alumni 20th-century male musicians 20th-century Finnish composers {{finland-bio-stub