CRONVALL, ERIK (, Helsinki–, Helsinki), conductor and violinist.
Cronvall studied violin at the Philharmonic Orchestra School from 1911 to 1914, at the Helsinki Music Institute with Anton Sitt from 1914 to 1923, in Paris, in Berlin, and later in Vienna. He was the concertmaster of the Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1927 to 1953 and a conductor there from 1944 to 1970. Active as a chamber musician, he was a founding member of the Sibelius Quartet in...