LAUNIS, ARMAS (, Hämeenlinna–, Nice), a folk music researcher, founder of several folk conservatories, and opera composer.
Launis studied cello with Ossian Fohström and composition with Jean Sibelius at the Helsinki Music Institute from 1901 to 1907, continuing his studies at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin in 1907 and 1908, and in Wiemar in 1909. During that time, in 1906, he was the first to be awarded a master's degree in music at University of...