FAZER, EDVARD (, Helsinki–, Helsinki), a pianist, opera director, impressario, and businessman.
His parents moved to Finland in the mid–1800s from Switzerland. He studied piano in Finland and at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, giving his first concert at the age of twenty. In 1885 he studied in Vienna with Theodor Leschetizky, in Weimar with Bernhard Stavenhagen, and in Berlin with Xaver Scharwenka, followed by an extensive concert tour of Russia, Germany,...