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Biography
Paavo Heininen (born 13 January 1938 in Järvenpää ) is a Finnish people|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 and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York .
Heininen is one of the most important Finnish modernism (music)|modernist composers. His works can be roughly divided into two periods: dodecaphony|dodecaphonic (c. 1957–1975) and serialism|postserialist (from 1976 onwards).
Heininen's main works include five symphonies, four piano concertos, a concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra, a violin concerto, a cello concerto, Adagio ("a concerto for an orchestra in the form of variations"), Poesia squillante ed incandescente , a string quintet, ...tyttöjen kävely ruusulehdossa... for string orchestra, and the opera s The Knife (1985–1988) and The Damask Drum (1981–1983).
References
Anderson, Martin. 2002. "Heininen, Paavo (Johannes)". The Oxford Companion to Music , edited by Alison Latham. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866212-2.
Oramo, Ilkka. 2001. "Heininen, Paavo (Johannes)". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (professor of music)|John Tyrrell . London: Macmillan Publishers.
Parsons, Jeremy 'Paavo Heininen', The Musical Times , Vol. 119, No. 1628 (Oct., 1978), pp. 850-853 http://www.jstor.org/stable/957787
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