Henrik Otto Donner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henrik Otto Donner

Finnish composer

Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1939

Place of Birth: Tampere, Finland

Date of Death: 26-Jun-2013

Profession: composer, film score composer, trumpeter, jazz musician

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Henrik Otto Donner (16 November 1939 – 26 June 2013) was a Finnish composer, musician and all-round music personality.
His musical styles varied from pop and rock music to jazz, electronic music and contemporary classical music.
Donner's personal instrument was trumpet.
He was a member of the famous Finland Swedish Donner family.Donner was one of the pioneers of Finnish avant-garde and experimental music as well as an important figure in Finnish left-wing "song movement" of the 1960s and 1970s.
He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and later in Vienna as a student of György Ligeti.
In 1966 Donner was one of the founders of record label Love Records which was a pioneering label in Finnish rock music.
Donner collaborated with many Finnish musicians and artists such as Erkki Kurenniemi, Juhani Aaltonen, A.
W.
Yrjänä, Hasse Walli and Dave Lindholm.
He was a film score composer for more than 50 movies and TV-series.Henrik Otto Donner was found dead at the marina of Jakobstad early on 27 June 2013.
It is yet uncertain whether he drowned or died of a heart attack.