GREVE, CONRAD (, Glückstadt, Holstein, Germany–, Stockholm), composer, violinist, and conductor, one of many foreign-born musicians who contributed to Finnish music in the formative years.
After studies in Wismar and Schleswig, Greve moved to Turku in 1842 where he conducted F. W. Siber's orchestra from 1842 to 1843 and taught in Siber's music school. When the Turku Musical Society (see TURKU MUSICAL SOCIETY) was revived for the third time in 1842, Greve became the...