Yrjo kilpinen biography of william

Forgot your password? Retrieve it. We need you! Help us build the largest biographies collection on the web! Add a New Bio. Powered by CITE. Notify me of new comments via email. Helsinki, Feb. He studied with Furuhjelm at the Helsinki Music Inst. He wrote music criticism in Helsinki —31 and also taught at the Helsinki Cons. He was best known as a composer of songs, of which he wrote more than ; many were popular in Germany as well as in Finland.

He also wrote Pastoral Suite for Orch. Legge, The Songs of Y. London, ; T. Karila, Y. Pulkinen, Y. During the s and s he was internationally the most well-known Finnish composer after Jean Sibelius. Kilpinen's friendship with the German national-socialistic leaders brought him a bad name after the war, after which he was more or less a "persona non grata" in Finland.

Kilpinen remains a controversial figure to this very day despite the continuous popularity of his music — him being a Nazi-sympathiser still casts a dark shadow upon his reputation as well as his extensive history of pedophilia; which included him impregnating underage girls. The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign holds the Jeffrey Sandborg Collection of Yrjo Kilpinen Music, —, [ 2 ] which consists of published scores, manuscripts originals and facsimiles , newspaper and journal articles, concert programs, photographs, phonograph and reel-to-reel recordings.

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Yrjo kilpinen biography of william

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