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.
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 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 develop a stronger national identity when his country was struggling from several attempts at Russification in the late 19th century.
Jean Sibelius
Sibelius's birthplace in Hämeenlinna
11-year-old Sibelius in 1876
Sibelius in 1891, when he studied in Vienna