Robert Kajanus

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Robert Kajanus (2 December 1856 - 6 July 1933) was a Finnish conductor and composer. Robert Kajanus was the most prominent Finnish composer before Jean Sibelius. His music drew on the folk legends of the Finnish people.. He studied with Talsin and Niemann in Helsinki, with Hans Richter, Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig, and Johann Svendsen in Paris. In the 1880s he put the Helsinki Orchestra on a permanent footing. He worked in Dresden in the years immediately after his graduation, and returned to Helsinki in 1882. He founded the Helsinki Philharmonic Society, (later to become the Finnish National Orchestra), the first permanent orchestra in Finland. He brought the orchestra to a very high performance standard very quickly, so that they were able to give quite credible performances of the standard late classical/mid-romantic repertory. Kajanus led the Helsinki Philharmonic for 50 years, and among the milestones of that history was the first performance in Finland of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in 1888. Kajanus was appointed director of music at Helsinki University in 1897 and remained in the post for the next 29 years, a period in which he had a major impact on music education in his native country. He was also the founder of the Nordic Music Festival in 1919. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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albums

KAJANUS: Finnish Rhapsody, Op. 5 / Sinfonietta, Op. 16 / Kullervo

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Orchestral Music (Finnish) - Klami, U. / Palmgren, S. / Kajanus, R. / Kuula, T. / Sibelius, J. (Pictures From Finland)

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Finlandia: A Festival of Finnish Music

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Kevätsointuja

Nostalgia: Lyrical Finnish Music for Strings

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Robert Kajanus dirige Sibelius (Volume 3)

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Vuodet - Polyteknikkojen Kuoro 100 vuotta

Sibelius Favourites

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Children (Classical Favourites For) - Teddy Bear at the Concert Orkesterimusiikin Suosikkeja Lapsille (Nallekarhu Konsertissa)

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Finland 100: A Century of Finnish Classics

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Adagietto

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An Anthology of Finnish Piano Music, Vol. 1

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