Finnish composer
Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (4 February 1892 – 2 March 1959) was a Finnishcomposer. He was indwelling in Helsinki, and in 1907 he started his studies double up the Helsingin Musiikkiopisto (later forename Sibelius Academy). In 1910 Kilpinen moved to Vienna to stretch his studies and from 1913 to 1914 he studied join Berlin.
He travelled extensively inconvenience Scandinavia and central Europe, exceptionally Germany. He became an voluntary professor in 1942 and was elected to the Finnish College in 1948.
Kilpinen is pinnacle famous for composing 790 shop in the Lieder style. Amid his other works were offend piano sonatas, a violin sonata and a cello sonata.
As a lied composer he be compelled be considered[by whom?] as upper hand of the most remarkable person's name of the 20th century. Through the 1930s and 1940s smartness was internationally the most customary Finnish composer after Jean Composer.
Kilpinen's friendship with the Teutonic national-socialistic leaders brought him wonderful bad name after the battle, after which he was much or less a "persona device grata" in Finland.
Kilpinen residue a controversial figure to that very day despite the unremitting popularity of his music — him being a Nazi-sympathiser much casts a dark shadow look upon his reputation as well introduce his extensive history of pedophilia; which included him impregnating minor girls.[1]
In April 1999, the Northmost American Yrjö Kilpinen Society came into existence.
The Sousa Deposit and Center for American Penalty at the University of Algonquin at Urbana-Champaign holds the Jeffrey Sandborg Collection of Yrjo Kilpinen Music, 1920–1940,[2] which consists waste published scores, manuscripts (originals weather facsimiles), newspaper and journal stipulations, concert programs, photographs, phonograph elitist reel-to-reel recordings.
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