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Paavo Heininen
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Paavo Johannes Heininen (born 13 January 1938 in Järvenpää) is a Finnish composer and pianist. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where he was taught composition by Aarre Merikanto, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Einar Englund, and Joonas Kokkonen. He continued his studies in Cologne with Bernd Alois Zimmermann; at the Juilliard School of Music in New York with Vincent Persichetti and Eduard Steuermann; and privately in Poland with Witold Lutosławski. He has also studied musicology at the University of Helsinki. Heininen is one of the most important Finnish modernist composers. His works can be roughly divided into two periods: dodecaphonic (c. 1957–1975) and postserialist (from 1976 onwards). Due to the hostile reactions to his early works, particularly the First Symphony, his works up to the 1980s can be roughly divided in two groups: more personal and complex pieces and more approachable, audience-friendly pieces such as the Second Symphony, "Petite symphonie joyeuse". As professor of composition at the Sibelius Academy, Heininen has been highly influential in educating the next generation of Finnish composers and his pupils have included Magnus Lindberg, Kaija Saariaho, Jukka Tiensuu, Jouni Kaipainen and Veli-Matti Puumala. In addition to original works, Heininen has reconstructed several pieces that his composition teacher Aarre Merikanto mutilated or destroyed, including the latter's Symphonic Study (1928) and String Sextet (1932) and written the violin concerto
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Boston Sonatas, Violin Sonata, Op. 134 No. 3: I. Guirlande
572Maiandros
213Triple antienne (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)
204Adagio, Op. 12
195Heininen : Piano Concerto No.2 Op.15 : Sonata
196Heininen : Symphony No.2 Op.9, 'Petite symphonie joyeuse' : I Allegro
187String Quartet No. 1, Op. 32c
188Heininen : Arioso Op.16
189Heininen : Musique d'été Op.11
1610Heininen : Symphony No.2 Op.9, 'Petite symphonie joyeuse' : II Allegretto
16albums
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Paavo Heininen: Boston Sonatas, Op. 134
Englund, E. / Heininen, P.: Violin Sonatas
Paavo Heininen : Arioso, Piano Concerto No.2, Symphony No.2
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Heininen, P. / Linjama, J.: Quincunx Duplex / Heininen, P.: Taalla / Escaich, T.: Choral's Dream
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Paavo Heininen: Works for Organ 1966-2006
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Meet The Composer - Paavo Heininen
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Mystery Variations on Giuseppe Colombi's Chiacona
Heininen & Nielsen: Flute Concertos
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Paavo Heininen : Piano Works : Poesia Squillante ed Incandescente; Poésies-Périphrases; Préludes - Études - Poèmes
Tiensuu: Le Tombeau De Mozart - Crusell: Introduction Et Air Suédois Varié
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Heininen : The Damask Drum
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Heininen, P. / Hakola, K. / Kurtag, G. / Koskinen, J.: String Quartets