HAAPANEN, TOIVO (, Karvia–, Asikkala), musicologist, orchestra conductor, and a good-natured, but sharp-minded administrator who was a unifying factor among many of the musical groups in Helsinki.
Haapanen studied violin at the Philharmonic Orchestra School from 1907 and then played violin and viola in the Helsinki City Orchestra from 1912 to 1917. He completed his undergraduate studies in 1918 and his doctorate in 1925, with a doctoral dissertation in 1924 on...