CRUSELL, BERNHARD (, Uusikaupunki–, Stockholm), clarinetist and composer, often referred to as The Mozart of the North.
Crusell was the son of a poor bookbinder and learned to play a friend's clarinet by ear. He attracted the attention of a family friend who took him at the age of thirteen to Suomenlinna, a fortress in the harbor off Helsinki whose cultured officers influenced the artistic, political, and social life of Helsinki. Major O. Wallenstjerna was...