MÄKINEN, RIKHARD (, Pornainen–, Uskela), cantor-organist, concert organist, music educator, orchestra conductor, and composer.
He studied at the Helsinki Cantor-Organist School and the Helsinki Music Institute simultaneously from 1898 to 1902. For almost forty years, from 1905 to 1944, he was the cantor-organist of Uskela parish near the town of Salo. He taught singing in the Salo schools, conducted the Salo orchestra for eleven years from 1906 to 1917, and directed the Lutheran...