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 contempo
Leevi Madetoja
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
Jean Sibelius
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Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often credited with having helped Finland
Leevi Madetoja
…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. The core of Madetoja's oeuvre consists of a set of three symphonies (1916, 1918, and 1926), arguably…
Jean Sibelius circa 1898 1900
Sibelius's birthplace in Hämeenlinna
11-year-old Sibelius in 1876
Sibelius in 1891, when he studied in Vienna