Erkki Kurenniemi | fr
Erkki Hyva (Mr. Good) is one man subculture from Tartu, Estonia. Through rain and shine he has been 24h-a-day performing artist during last 25 years, played in various indie films, made psychedelic sketches in streets and talked like like Socrates on LSD. And he really i s good :) He began making his own music circa 1990 in his home studio. His music ranges from campy schmaltz to top-notch prog psychedelica and beyond. While playing live he creates every track anew in quite different way. His home contains much unreleased and surprising stuff. In 2004 Õunaviks´s (Apple Polish) crew decided...
Erkki Kurenniemi (born 1941) is one of the most important characters in the history of Finnish electronic music. His mother was Marjatta Kurenniemi, the famous author of children's books. Erkki Kurenniemi founded an electronic music studio for the Department of Musicology at the University of Helsinki in the early 1960s. Alongside working on media art, happenings and short films of his own, Kurenniemi built several electronic instruments for himself and also for other people, such as M.A. Numminen, for whom he created first a "singing machine" with which Numminen participated in a singing contest in 1964, and in the late...
Erkki Melartin (February 2, 1875–February 14, 1937) was a Finnish composer and pupil of Martin Wegelius from 1892-99 in Helsinki, and Robert Fuchs from 1899-1901 in Vienna. Interestingly enough, he shares identical birth and death years with more famous composer Maurice Ravel.
As well as composing, Melartin also taught and directed music at the Helsinki Music College, later the Helsinki Conservatory. As conductor of the Viborg 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...
Erkki-Sven Tüür est un compositeur estonien, né à Kärdla, sur l'île estonienne de Hiiumaa, le 16 octobre 1959.
C'est un des compositeurs les plus remarquables de sa génération. Autodidacte pour l'essentiel, il a néanmoins étudié les percussions et la flûte à la Tallinn Music School de 1976 à 1980. Ensuite, il a étudié la composition avec Jaan Rääts (en), à la Tallinn Academy of Music, et a pris des leçons privées avec Lepo Sumera. En 1979, il a fondé un groupe de rock de chambre, In Spe, qui est devenu un des groupes les plus populaires en Estonie.
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