ACERBI, GIUSEPPE (–), an eighteenth-century Italian traveler, writer, and musician who visited Finland and described his musical experiences, his encounters with folk music, and the audience reaction to a rune-based composition of his.
In his two-volume account Travels Through Sweden, Finland and Lapland to the North Cape in the Years 1798 and 1799 (2 vols., London, 1802), he tells in a vivid and amusing manner of his musical experiences in Oulu, in northern Finland. Acerbi played...