KAJANUS, ROBERT (, Helsinki–), founder and conductor of the Helsinki Orchestral Society for half a century, promoter of Finnish orchestral works, first great interpreter of the music of Sibelius, and a composer of nationalistic compositions.
As a youth Kajanus dropped out of secondary school to devote his time to music, studying violin with Gustav Niemann and theory and composition with Richard Faltin. In the fall of 1877 he travelled to Leipzig, where he studied...