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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Finnish Composers

Composer of the Week: Finnish Composers: Episode 1: Founding Fathers (and Later Echoes)

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Episode 1: Founding Fathers (and Later Echoes)

Founding Fathers (and Later Echoes)

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Finnish Composers, Founding Fathers (and Later Echoes)

Donald Macleod focuses on the music of two of the earliest composers in Finland.

Donald Macleod focuses on the first figures in Finnish music: Bernhard Crusell and Frederick Pacius - 'the German father of Finnish music', and Magnus Lindberg, one of the latest.

Sibelius has been the dominating figure in the history of Finnish music - but this week Donald Macleod is looking at other composers who have contributed to making this one of the most musically active small nations in the world. Linguistically and geographically isolated, Finland has learnt to communicate with the wider world through music, but its classical tradition was founded relatively recently, in the 1880s. With the help of Tim Howell, author of 'After Sibelius', Donald explores the work of Sibelius' contemporaries as Finland was emerging as a State, and some of those who took on the reins afterwards... 

In today's programme he looks at the first figures in Finnish music: Bernhard Crusell and Frederick Pacius - 'the German father of Finnish music', and one of the latest: Magnus Lindberg.

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Donald Macleod and Tim Howell explore the work of Sibelius's contemporaries

Donald Macleod is joined by Finnish music expert Tim Howell, to explore the work of Sibelius's contemporaries as Finland was emerging as a state, and some of those who emerged subsequently.

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