KOTHEN, AXEL VON (, Hamina–, Tammisaari), composer, vocal teacher, music critic, music journal editor, and concert singer who travelled and concertized extensively despite his confinement to a wheelchair because of paralyzed legs.
Von Kothen showed his musical gifts early and published his first song, Ave Maria, at the age of fourteen. Despite the paralysis which came upon him in his teens, Von Kothen went on to study at the Helsinki Music Institute from 1894...