HÄMÄLÄINEN, LAURI (, Rautalampi–, Helsinki), composer and organist.
From childhood, Lauri Hämäläinen played not only the violin, but also the organ, clarinet, and cornet; but it was not until the age of twenty-eight that he won a state scholarship to study music formally at the Stockholm Royal Music Academy from 1860 to 1864. Returning to Finland he worked variously in Viipuri as a military band conductor, as organist at Suomenlinna Fortress, and as violinist in...