FALTIN, RICHARD (, Danzig–, Helsinki), German-born organist, conductor, university instructor and Fredrik Pacius's successor at the University of Helsinki (see PACIUS, FREDRIK), and composer, for many years the most significant musical leader in Finland.
A musical child of a musical family, Faltin was allowed at the age of seventeen to leave secondary school because of poor health. He then studied composition with Friedrich Schneider, the court Kapellmeister in...