Ilmari Hannikainen
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Toivo Ilmari Hannikainen (19 October 1892, Jyväskylä – 25 July 1955, Kuhmoinen) was a Finnish composer.
Hannikainen was the son of Pekka Juhani Hannikainen and the brother of Väinö Hannikainen, both of whom were composers and of Tauno Hannikainen who was a conductor. After studying at the University of Helsinki (1911–14), he became a pupil of Franz Schreker at the Musikakademie in Vienna, and continued his studies with Alexander Siloti in Saint Petersburg (1915–17) and with Alfred Cortot in Paris (1919). Returning to Finland, he taught piano at the Helsinki Conservatory and later gained a Professorship at the Sibelius Academy.
Hannikainen steered Finnish classical music from late Romanticism towards Impressionism. In addition to his piano miniatures, which best illustrated this development, he composed one opera, one piano concerto, one piano quartet, lieder, and film scores (notably, Sången om den eldröda blomman, Sweden, 1934).
Hannikainen drowned during a sailing trip in Kuhmoinen in 1955. Some musical colleagues, like Aarre Merikanto, considered his death a suicide. He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.[1]
Notes
- ^ "Hietaniemen hautausmaa – merkittäviä vainajia" (PDF). Helsingin seurakuntayhtymä. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
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External links
- Free scores by Toivo Ilmari Hannikainen at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Ilmari Hannikainen at IMDb
- Songs by Ilmari Hannikainen on The Art Song Project
- 1892 births
- 1955 deaths
- People from Jyväskylä
- People from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
- Finnish composers
- Romantic composers
- 20th-century classical composers
- Finnish film score composers
- Male film score composers
- Finnish classical pianists
- Deaths by drowning
- 20th-century classical pianists
- Burials at Hietaniemi cemetery
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