Dornröschen Op 22 No. 17 Butterfly Waltz - Music
Dornröschen Op 22 No. 17 Butterfly Waltz by Erkki Melartin
Erkki Melartin
Artist Biography For Erkki Melartin
Erkki Melartin February 2 1875–February 14 1937 Was A Finnish Composer And Pupil Of Martin Wegelius From 1892-99 In Helsinki And Robert Fuchs From 1899-1901 In Vienna. Interestingly Enough He Shares Identical Birth And Death Years With More Famous Composer Maurice Ravel. As Well As Composing Melartin Also Taught And Directed Music At The Helsinki Music College Later The Helsinki Conservatory. As Conductor Of The Viborg Orchestra In 1908-11 And Despite Chronic Health Problems Melartin Toured Extensively As Far As North Africa And India Conducting The First Performance Of Gustav Mahler's Music In Scandinavia A Movement Of The Resurrection Symphony In 1909 See The Finnish Music Information Centre Link 1 . Although Melartin Was Chiefly A Lyricist The Symphony Was Central To His Musical Output. He Wrote Six Symphonies 1902–1924 And Was The First Finnish Composer To Bear Mahler's Influence. The Fourth Symphony Uses A Vocalise Like That Of Carl Nielsen's Sinfonia Espansiva. The Fifth Is A Sinfonia Brevis Ending In A Fugue And Chorale While The Sixth Harmonically More Advanced Than The Other Five Advances Stepwise From A C Minor First Movement — With Evocations Of Mahler's Seventh Symphony — To An E-Flat Major Finale. His Musical Output Also Includes An Opera Aino Based On The Character From The Finnish National Epic A Violin Concerto Four String Quartets And Many Piano Pieces. His Works Therefore Are Divided Mainly Into Large-Scale Works For Orchestra And Chamber Pieces For Much Smaller Groups And Soloists. In Spite Of Working In The Same Time Period As Jean Sibelius He Was Not Influenced By The More Famous Composer's Style And Subsequently His Work Has Been Largely Overshadowed By Finland's Most Revered Composer.
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Biography - Erkki Melartin
Erkki Melartin February 2 1875–February 14 1937 Was A Finnish Composer And Pupil Of Martin Wegelius From 1892-99 In Helsinki And Robert Fuchs From 1899-1901 In Vienna. Interestingly Enough He Shares Identical Birth And Death Years With More Famous Composer Maurice Ravel. As Well As Composing Melartin Also Taught And Directed Music At The Helsinki Music College Later The Helsinki Conservatory. As Conductor Of The Viborg Orchestra In 1908-11 And Despite Chronic Health Problems Melartin Toured Extensively As Far As North Africa And India Conducting The First Performance Of Gustav Mahler's Music In Scandinavia A Movement Of The Resurrection Symphony In 1909 See The Finnish Music Information Centre Link 1 . Although Melartin Was Chiefly A Lyricist The Symphony Was Central To His Musical Output. He Wrote Six Symphonies 1902–1924 And Was The First Finnish Composer To Bear Mahler's Influence. The Fourth Symphony Uses A Vocalise Like That Of Carl Nielsen's Sinfonia Espansiva. The Fifth Is A Sinfonia Brevis Ending In A Fugue And Chorale While The Sixth Harmonically More Advanced Than The Other Five Advances Stepwise From A C Minor First Movement — With Evocations Of Mahler's Seventh Symphony — To An E-Flat Major Finale. His Musical Output Also Includes An Opera Aino Based On The Character From The Finnish National Epic A Violin Concerto Four String Quartets And Many Piano Pieces. His Works Therefore Are Divided Mainly Into Large-Scale Works For Orchestra And Chamber Pieces For Much Smaller Groups And Soloists. In Spite Of Working In The Same Time Period As Jean Sibelius He Was Not Influenced By The More Famous Composer's Style And Subsequently His Work Has Been Largely Overshadowed By Finland's Most Revered Composer.
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