Aulis Sallinen
Aulis Sallinen
Aulis Sallinenis a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. His music has been variously described as "remorselessly harsh", a "beautifully crafted amalgam of several 20th-century styles", and "neo-romantic". Sallinen studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen. He has had works commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, and has also written 6 operas, 8 symphonies, concertos for violin, cello, flute, horn and English horn as well as several chamber works. He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1978...
NationalityFinnish
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth9 April 1935
CountryFinland
Aulis Sallinen quotes about
I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.
If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.
I really believe in melody.
These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.