What is Aarre Merikanto?
[[File:AarreMerikanto1950.jpg|thumb|right|Aarre Merikanto.]] '''Aarre Merikanto''' (29 June 1893 — 28 September 1958) was a [[Finland|Finnish]] [[composer]]. His parents were Liisa Häyrynen and [[composer]] [[Oskar Merikanto]]. Merikanto was born in 1893. He studied music in [[Helsinki]] ([[1911]]), [[Leipzig]] (1912-1914) and [[Moscow]] (1916-1917). He tried composing an [[opera]] for the first time when he was 18 years old. The result was ''Helena'', which was completed in early 1912. The opera had one act and its [[libretto]] was written by [[Jalmari Finne]]. In the [[1920s]] Merikanto created his own modernist style. Merikanto was a professor of composition in the [[Sibelius Academy]], [[Helsinki]] from 1951 to his death. Merikanto died of [[lung cancer]] in [[Helsinki]] in 1958. == Other websites == *[http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/merikanto+aarre Aarre Merikanto – information from the Finnish Music Information Centre] {{Authority control}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Merikanto, Aarre}} [[Category:1893 births]] [[Category:1958 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century composers]] [[Category:Deaths from lung cancer]] [[Category:Finnish composers]]