Tauno Pylkkänen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Finnish composer
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Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
About Tauno Pylkkänen
- Tauno Kullervo Pylkkänen (March 22, 1918, Helsinki – March 13, 1980, Helsinki) was a Finnish composer. Pylkkänen was a student of Leevi Madetoja and Selim Palmgren, and studied at the Helsinki Conservatory, then in Paris, Rome, and Vienna.
- He made his breakthrough as a composer with the opera Mare ja hänen poikansa (1943) after Aino Kallas, which was premiered in the Finnish Opera in 1945.
- It was followed by ten more operas, including the internationally successful Sudenmorsian (1950).
- From 1960 to 1967 he was artistic director of the Finnish Opera. In addition to the operas he composed a symphony, a symphonic fantasy, six symphonic poems, a cello concerto, chamber music works, a cantata, film music, a choir cycle for women's voices, songs and two song cycles.
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