IKONEN, LAURI (, Mikkeli–, Helsinki), song composer, music critic, orchestral conductor, accompanist, journalist, and founder of TEOSTO (Säveltäjäin Tekijänoikeustoimisto, or, Composers' Copyright Union) in 1928 and its first director.
Ikonen attended the Helsinki Music Institute from 1906 to 1910, where he studied theory with Armas Järnefelt, studied under musicologist Ilmari Krohn at the orchestra school, and received his baccalaureate degree from the University of Helsinki...