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Finnish conductor and composer (1856–1933)

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Gender
Male
Origin
Finland
Active from
1856-12-02
Active to
1933-07-06
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Robert Kajanus (2 December 1856 - 6 July 1933) was a Finnish conductor and composer. Robert Kajanus was the most prominent Finnish composer before Jean Sibelius. His music drew on the folk legends of the Finnish people.. He studied with Talsin and Niemann in Helsinki, with Hans Richter, Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig, and Johann Svendsen in Paris. In the 1880s he put the Helsinki Orchestra on a permanent footing. He worked in Dresden in the years immediately after his graduatio

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