KLAMI, UUNO (, Virolahti–, Virolahti), composer, appointed to the Finnish Academy in 1959 to replace Yrjö Kilpinen (see KILPINEN, YRJÖ).
Raised in a Karelian village of seamen on the Gulf of Finland, Klami felt the love of the sea throughout his life. His father died when the boy was not yet four years old, and his mother, who accompanied him on his six-kilometer walk to the nearest piano for practice and lessons, died when he...