KROHN, ILMARI (, Helsinki–, Helsinki), composer, Finland's first musicologist, organist, choir director, music teacher, and author.
Ilmari Krohn was the product of a home steeped in Finnish culture. Ilmari's father, Julius Krohn, though German-born, was a historian, scholar, and poet, whose verses, under the pen name of Suonio, were the first Finnish texts to be used in art song (by Ernst Fabritius). Ilmari's brother, Kaarle Krohn, was a pioneer in folk poetry...