Yrjö Kilpinen
Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (4 February 1892 – 2 March 1959) was a
Kilpinen is most famous for composing 790 works in the
.As a lied composer he should be considered[by whom?] as one of the most remarkable names of the 20th century. During the 1930s and 1940s he was internationally the most well-known Finnish composer after Jean Sibelius.
Kilpinen's friendship with the German national-socialistic leaders brought him a bad name after the war, after which he was more or less a "persona non grata" in Finland. Kilpinen remains a controversial figure to this very day despite the continuous popularity of his music — him being a Nazi-sympathiser still casts a dark shadow upon his reputation as well as his extensive history of pedophilia; which included him impregnating underage girls.[1]
In April 1999, the North American Yrjö Kilpinen Society came into existence. The
Literature
- The Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, pg. 234. © 1940 Blue Ribbon Books, Inc. (Original © 1903.)
External links
- Kimmo Korhonen: Inventing Finnish Music – Contemporary Composers from Medieval to Modern, retrieved October 4, 2006
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