Author Archives: Ilkka Oramo

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About Ilkka Oramo

Professor of Music Theory, emeritus

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Posted on 07/01/2002 by Ilkka Oramo

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s music may be roughly divided into three periods. When studying composition with Rautavaara at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in the late 1970s he wrote smoothly neo-Romantic chamber music with expressive melodic phrases and tonal harmony, such as … Continue reading →

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Programmatik und Symphonik bei Jean Sibelius und seinen Zeitgenossen

Posted on 01/28/2002 by Ilkka Oramo

Jean Sibelius schrieb seine ersten Orchesterwerke in den 90er Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts, zu Beginn einer musikgeschichtlichen Epoche, die Carl Dahlhaus in Anlehnung an Hermann Bahr „die Moderne“ nannte und die sich über ein Vierteljahrhundert von 1889 bis 1914 erstreckte.[1] … Continue reading →

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Helsinki

Posted on 12/31/2001 by Ilkka Oramo

(Swed. Helsingfors). Capital of Finland. Founded in 1550 as a trading station by the King of Sweden, Helsinki was destroyed by the Russians during the Great Nordic War in 1713. It begun to recover only at the end of the … Continue reading →

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Finland [Suomi]

Posted on 12/31/2001 by Ilkka Oramo

Country in northern Europe. I. Art music 1. The Middle Ages. Christian influence had begun to infiltrate the provinces north of the Baltic during the late Viking era, before 1000. It was not until the second half of the 12th … Continue reading →

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Esa-Pekka Salonen: LA Variations, Five Images after Sappho, Mania, Gambit, Giro

Posted on 10/01/2001 by Ilkka Oramo

To view Esa-Pekka Salonen as a conductor who also composes is to consider his story in reverse. When he was a student at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in the ’70s, Salonen entered Jorma Panula’s conducting class primarily as a … Continue reading →

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Linjama, Jouko

Posted on 01/20/2001 by Ilkka Oramo

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online:2001 (b Kirvu, Feb 4, 1934). Finnish composer and organist. He studied the organ with Enzio Forsblom and composition with Aarre Merikanto and Joonas Kokkonen at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki (1954–60), and then with Gottfried Michael Koenig and Bernd Alois … Continue reading →

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Linko, Ernst

Posted on 01/20/2001 by Ilkka Oramo

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001 (b Tampere, July 17, 1889; d Helsinki, Jan 28, 1960). Finnish pianist and composer. He studied the piano at the Helsinki Music School with Sigrid Schnéevoigt and Karl Ekman (1909–11), and continued his studies in Berlin with Martin Krause, in St Petersburg … Continue reading →

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Furuhjelm, Erik

Posted on 01/20/2001 by Ilkka Oramo

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001 b Helsinki, 6 July 1883; d Helsinki, 13 June 1964). Finnish composer. He studied the violin and music theory at the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra School with Anton Sitt and Sibelius, then at the Helsinki Music School, with Viktor Nováček and … Continue reading →

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Rechberger, Herman

Posted on 01/20/2001 by Ilkka Oramo

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001 (b Linz, Feb 14, 1947). Finnish composer of Austrian birth. He studied graphic art and the classical guitar in Linz, Zürich and Brussels. After moving to Finland in 1970 he attended the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where he studied composition … Continue reading →

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Linjama, Jyrki

Posted on 01/20/2001 by Ilkka Oramo

Published in print: 20 January 2001, Published online: 2001 (b Jyväskylä, April 23, 1962). Finnish composer. He studied composition at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, with Rautavaara and Heininen (1979–89) and pursued further studies in The Hague (1987–8), in Budapest with Zolt Durkó (1989–91) and at the … Continue reading →

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