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Aulis Sallinen (born 9 April 1935) is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. His music has been variously described as "remorselessly harsh", a "beautifully crafted amalgam of several 20th-century styles", and "neo-romantic".[1][2] Sallinen studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen. He has had works commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, and has also written seven operas, eight symphonies, concertos for violin, cello, flute, horn, and English horn, as well as several chamber works. He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1978 for his opera Ratsumies (The Horseman).

Aulis Sallinen
Aulis Sallinen at the Academic Bookstore in Helsinki, Finland, in 2009
Born (1935-04-09) 9 April 1935 (age 87)
Occupationcomposer
Known forsymphonies
opera
Notable workOperas Ratsumies (The Horseman) and Punainen viiva (The Red Line)

Childhood and studies


Sallinen was born in Salmi. During his childhood the family moved several times for his father's work, and during Evacuation of Finnish Karelia in 1944 the family relocated to Uusikaupunki, where Aulis Sallinen attended his schools.[3]

His first instruments were violin and piano. He would play both jazz and classical music.[4] He was known to be extremely creative and spent much time during his teenage years improvising. After a while, he began writing his ideas down on paper and began serious composition. He attended the Sibelius Academy of Music and studied with a number of prestigious teachers such as Aarre Merikanto and Joonas Kokkonen.[5]


Early career and operas


After graduating, Sallinen took a position as composition teacher at the Sibelius Academy and continued composing. Among his pupils were i.e. the Austrian born Finnish composer Herman Rechberger and Jouni Kaipainen. He was appointed as the general manager of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1960 and held the position until 1969.[6] He was the chairman of the board of the Society of Finnish Composers between 1971 and 1974.[7] Though he was a known teacher and was on many boards of directors, his compositions were not particularly noted until he was made "Artist Professor" by the Finnish government in 1976, letting him concentrate on composing.[8]

Sallinen's first opera Ratsumies (The Horseman) premiered at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 1975. Together with Joonas Kokkonen's The Last Temptations (1975) it started a golden era of modern Finnish opera. His second opera, Punainen viiva (The Red Line), was commissioned by the Finnish National Opera. Sallinen's next opera, Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan (The King Goes Forth to France), was a joint commission by Covent Garden and the Finnish National Opera.[4]


Later life


After receiving his lifelong art professorship, Sallinen devoted great amounts of time to composing. He has revived standard forms and harmonies, but he puts them together in contemporary ways. He has received a number of commissions from renowned ensembles and has composed eight symphonies, including one using material from a proposed ballet based on The Lord of the Rings and containing two mediaeval Finnish tunes from the Piae Cantiones. He has written seven operas and is well known as the composer of the title track of the Kronos Quartet's album Winter Was Hard.


Career highlights



Selected works



Operas



Symphonies



Orchestral



Concertos



Chamber music



Vocal and choral



References


  1. Donal Henahan, "Music: Finnish Opera Offers Sallinen's 'Red Line.'" The New York Times. 29 April 1983.
  2. Jeremy Parsons, The Musical Times. Vol. 121, No. 1653 (Nov. 1980), pp. 693–695.
  3. "Sallinen, Aulis (1935–)". Biografiakeskus (in Finnish). Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  4. "Biography". all music guide. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  5. "Aulis Sallinen". Ondine. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  6. Antero Karttunen: Radion sinfoniaorkesteri 1927–2002, p. 78
  7. "About us". composers.fi.
  8. "Sallinen, Aulis (*1935): Fennica Gehrman – Finnish sheet music". www.fennicagehrman.fi.



На других языках


[de] Aulis Sallinen

Aulis Sallinen (* 9. April 1935 in Salmi) ist ein finnischer Komponist.
- [en] Aulis Sallinen

[ru] Саллинен, Аулис

А́улис Хе́йкки Са́ллинен (фин. Aulis Heikki Sallinen; род. 9 апреля 1935, Салми, Финляндия) — современный финский композитор.



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