MARVIA, EINARI (, Tuusniemi), composer, musicologist, married to singer Anja Marvia.
Marvia began his composition studies in 1930 at the age of fifteen with Erkki Melartin. In 1934 he enrolled simultaneously as a composition student at the Sibelius Academy, studying with Melartin, Leevi Madetoja, Selim Palmgren, and Aarre Merikanto, and as a law student at the University of Helsinki. With the 1939 disruption of the Winter War with Russia, Marvia left his studies and directed an Army Reserve...