LEANDER, ADOLF (, Heinola–, Helsinki), band conductor and first Finnish conductor of the Russian Military Guard Band, composer, French hornist.
Leander studied violin as a youth with Carl Gustav Wasenius and also studied cornet. In 1847, at the age of fourteen, he joined a military band, the Finnish Guard Battalion Band, and took part in the Crimean War, the Polish uprising of 1863, and the Turkish War (1877–79). From 1860 to 1870 he also played...