Selim Palmgren (Composer)
Born: 16th February 1878, Pori, Finland
Died: 13th December 1951, Helsinki, Finland
Nationality: Finnish
Selim Gustaf Adolf Palmgren was a Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor. Palmgren was born in Pori, Finland, February 16, 1878. He studied at the Conservatory in Helsinki from 1895 to 1899, then continued his piano studies in Berlin with Ansorge, Berger and Busoni. He conducted choral and orchestral societies in his own country and made several very successful concert tours as a pianist in the principal cities of Finland and Scandinavia, appearing also as a visiting conductor. In 1921, he went to the United States, where he taught composition at the Eastman School of Music, later returning to Finland, where he died in Helsinki, aged 73.
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Popular Works: Palmgren
- Aamun autereessa, Op. 106, No. 2 (1)
- Bird Song (2)
- En latmansmelodi (1)
- En route (7)
- En sällsam fagel Op. 95 (1)
- Evening Whispers (1)
- Feux-follets op. 35 No. 3 (1)
- Finnish Dance, Op. 31 (3)
- Hosiannah! (2)
- I vassen (In the Rushes) (Text: Osvald Sirén) (1)
- Intermezzo for the left hand (2)
- Ja neitsyt pikku poijuttansa (The Virgin Rocks Her Baby Boy) (6)
- Juhannus (Midsummer) (2)
- Kesäinen riemuretki Op. 106 No. 3 (Happy Summer Journey) (Text: Larin Kyösti) (1)
- Laiskurin Laulu (The Song Of An Idler) (1)
- May Night, Op. 27 No. 4 (5)
- Miilunpolttaja (the charcoal burner) (1)
- Nocturne in 3 Scenes, Op. 72 (5)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (2)
- Pictures from Finland Suite (1)
- Postludium (2)
- Preludes (24), Op. 17 (2)
- Rauhanruhtinas (2)
- Refrain de Berceau (3)
- Rococo, Op. 47 No. 5 (2)
- Ruohikossa (in the rushes) (1)
- Sjöfararen vid milan (The Charcoal Burner) (Text: Gustaf Fröding) (1)
- Snowflakes, Op. 57 No. 2 (3)
- Sonata in D minor, Op. 11 (3)
- Sonatine in F major, Op. 93 (2)
- Spring Dreams & Sleigh Ride (1)
- Spring, Op. 47 (5)
- Suvinen saari (summer island) (2)
- Tarantella (1)
- The Sea (5)
- The Swan, Op. 28 No. 5 (4)
- Toukokuu, Op. 27 (5)
- Tuutulaulu, SP 312 (2)
- Two Preludes (2)
- West Finnish Dance, Op. 31 No. 5 (3)
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