KUUSISTO, TANELI (, Helsinki–, Helsinki), composer, pianist, organist, author, choral conductor, director of the Sibelius Academy from 1959 to 1971, father of composer Ilkka Kuusisto and music teacher Tuulikki Närhinsalo, grandfather of violinists Jaakko and Pekka Kuusisto.
Kuusisto received his undergraduate degree from the University of Helsinki in 1928 and a master's degree in 1936. He completed studies at the Helsinki Cantor-Organist School in 1931. At the...