Name Erkki Melartin | Role Composer | |
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Compositions Aino, Aino, Mina metsan polkuja kuljen, Mina metsan polkuja kuljen, Symphony no 2 in E minor - op 30 no 2: I Andante tranquillo - Allegro, Symphony no 2 in E minor - op 30 no 2: I Andante tranquillo - Allegro, Symphony no 4 in E major - op 80 "Summer Symphony": IV Rondo-Finale, Symphony no 4 in E major - op 80 "Summer Symphony": IV Rondo-Finale, Symphony no 5 in A minor - op 90 "Sinfonia brevis": IV Finale, Symphony no 5 in A minor - op 90 "Sinfonia brevis": IV Finale, Symphony no 5 in A minor - op 90 "Sinfonia brevis": II Andante, Symphony no 5 in A minor - op 90 "Sinfonia brevis": II Andante, Symphony no 4 in E major - op 80 "Summer Symphony": III Andante, Symphony no 4 in E major - op 80 "Summer Symphony": III Andante, Mirjamin laulu II, Mirjamin laulu II, Symphony no 3 in F major - op 40: III Scherzo: Vivacissimo, Symphony no 3 in F major - op 40: III Scherzo: Vivacissimo, Symphony no 5 in A minor - op 90 "Sinfonia brevis": I Moderato, Symphony no 5 in A minor - op 90 "Sinfonia brevis": I Moderato, Symphony no 4 in E major - op 80 "Summer Symphony": I Allegro moderato, Symphony no 4 in E major - op 80 "Summer Symphony": I Allegro moderato, The Sleeping Beauty - op 22: Festive March, The Sleeping Beauty - op 22: Festive March, Symphony no 6 - op 100 - "Symphony of the Elements": II Andante, Symphony no 6 - op 100 - "Symphony of the Elements": II Andante, Symphony no 6 - op 100 - "Symphony of the Elements": I Andante, Symphony no 6 - op 100 - "Symphony of the Elements": I Andante, Symphony no 6 - op 100 - "Symphony of the Elements": III Allegro, Symphony no 6 - op 100 - "Symphony of the Elements": III Allegro, Juhlamarssi - op 22 no 6, Juhlamarssi - op 22 no 6, Symphony no 1 in C minor - op 30 no 1: I Adagio - Allegro molto moderato ed energico, Symphony no 1 in C minor - op 30 no 1: I Adagio - Allegro molto moderato ed energico, Symphony no 2 in E minor - op 30 no 2: IV Finale: Allegro vivace, Symphony no 2 in E minor - op 30 no 2: IV Finale: Allegro vivace, Symphony no 3 in F major - op 40: I Allegro moderato, Symphony no 3 in F major - op 40: I Allegro moderato, Symphony no 3 in F major - op 40: II Andante, Symphony no 3 in F major - op 40: II Andante, Symphony no 1 in C minor - op 30 no 1: II Adagio, Symphony no 1 in C minor - op 30 no 1: II Adagio, Symphony no 3 in F major - op 40: IV Largo, Symphony no 3 in F major - op 40: IV Largo, Symphony no 6 - op 100 - "Symphony of the Elements": IV Finale, Symphony no 6 - op 100 - "Symphony of the Elements": IV Finale, Symphony no 2 in E minor - op 30 no 2: II Andante, Symphony no 2 in E minor - op 30 no 2: II Andante, Sirkan haamatka, Sirkan haamatka, Symphony no 1 in C minor - op 30 no 1: IV Finale: Allegro vivace, Symphony no 1 in C minor - op 30 no 1: IV Finale: Allegro vivace, Symphony no 5 in A minor - op 90 "Sinfonia brevis": III Intermezzo: Allegro moderato, Symphony no 5 in A minor - op 90 "Sinfonia brevis": III Intermezzo: Allegro moderato, Symphony no 2 in E minor - op 30 no 2: III Scherzo: Allegro vivace, Symphony no 2 in E minor - op 30 no 2: III Scherzo: Allegro vivace, Symphony no 1 in C minor - op 30 no 1: III Scherzo: Allegro vivace, Symphony no 1 in C minor - op 30 no 1: III Scherzo: Allegro vivace, Symphony no 4 in E major - op 80 "Summer Symphony": II Scherzo: Vivace, Symphony no 4 in E major - op 80 "Summer Symphony": II Scherzo: Vivace, Mirjamin laulu I, Mirjamin laulu I Similar People Heino Kaski, Leevi Madetoja, Selim Palmgren, Toivo Kuula, Armas Jarnefelt | ||
Erkki melartin symphony no 3 1907 new edition 2012
Erkki Melartin (7 February 1875 in Käkisalmi – 14 February 1937 in Pukinmäki) was a Finnish composer and pupil of Martin Wegelius from 1892 to 1899 in Helsinki, and Robert Fuchs from 1899 to 1901 in Vienna. He shares birth and death years with the composer Maurice Ravel.
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- Erkki melartin symphony no 3 1907 new edition 2012
- Erkki melartin symphony no 4 in e major op 80 summer symphony 1912
- Career
- Stage
- Orchestral
- Chamber music
- Piano
- Vocal
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Erkki melartin symphony no 4 in e major op 80 summer symphony 1912
Career
As well as composing, Melartin also taught and directed music at the Helsinki Music College, later the Helsinki Conservatory. As conductor of the Vyborg 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.)
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 second 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. Despite working in the same time period as Jean Sibelius he was not influenced by the more famous composer's style, and his work has been largely overshadowed by Finland's most revered composer.
The Juhlamarssi (Festive March) from his ballet Sleeping Beauty is the most popular wedding march in Finland.