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kyjo
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« Reply #15 on: December 01, 2013, 02:58:49 am » |
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In my estimate the PC in B-flat minor of Ilmari Hannikainen (1892-1955, exact contemporary of Honegger!) is a major find:
This work is certainly on par with the Atterberg PC and is its equal in melodic fecundity and passion. There are some impressionistic touches here and there which lighten the atmosphere, bringing to mind the PCs of Selim Palmgren. Unfortunately, Hannikainen was not very prolific and (besides the PC) only left behind an opera, a piano quartet, solo piano works, and a couple film scores. His untimely death was brought about by him drowning in a boating accident, which his compatriot Aarre Merikanto believed to be a suicide. On the evidence of the PC, he was a great loss to the musical world. :(
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