KILPINEN, YRJÖ (, Helsinki–, Helsinki), composer of song cycles to texts in German, Swedish, and Finnish, but particularly known for his skill in evoking the northern landscape and soul in texts dealing with Lapland and the Kalevala.
Kilpinen began his studies at the Helsinki Institute of Music in 1908 and then continued in Vienna in 1910 and 1911 under Richard Heuberger (–) and in Berlin with Otto Taubman (–) and Paul Juon (