Per Wikipedia, "Leevi Antti Madetoja (17 February 1887, Oulu – 6 October 1947, Helsinki) was a Finnish composer, music critic, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods, generally considered to be one of the most significant Finnish composers to emerge in the wake of Jean Sibelius, under whom he studied privately from 1908 to 1910."

Madetoja moved from Late Romanticism to Neo-Classicism, and was one of the first Scandinavian composers to do so. As such, he met with great resistance from critics and audiences in his final years. His Second Symphony, however, was Late Romantic, composed at the end of WWI. It was a war symphony, no question of that: Madetoja never denied it, and while he wrote it, both his brother, involved in the Finnish Civil War, and a close friend, composer Toivo Kuula, were killed. In four movements, with great force and imagination, no other work by Madetoja was ever so well received.


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