HANNIKAINEN, PEKKA JUHANI (P. J.) (, Nurmes–, Helsinki), Finnish composer, music educator, poet, pioneer in Finnish-language school and Finnish choir singing, and the father of the musical Hannikainen brothers, Arvo, Ilmari, Tauno, and Väinö.
Except for a study trip to central Europe in 1897, P. J. Hannikainen was mainly a self-taught musician, the son of a cantor. Hannikainen composed a large number of patriotic and school unison and part-songs that are melodic,...