Juhani Aho
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Juhani Aho, originally Johannes Brofeldt, was a Finnish author and journalist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twelve times.
Aho in 1886
Portrait by his wife Venny Soldan-Brofeldt, 1890
Portrait by Venny, 1891
Leevi Madetoja
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Leevi Antti Madetoja was a Finnish composer, music critic, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as one of the most significant Finnish contemporaries of Jean Sibelius, under whom he studied privately from 1908 to 1910.
Madetoja (c. 1908)
Paris (c. 1890s), where Madetoja studied from 1910 to 1911; he fell in love with the city and returned many times
Robert Kajanus, to whom Madetoja dedicated his First Symphony