MUNTRA MUSIKANTER CHOIR

MUNTRA MUSIKANTER CHOIR (Merry Musicians Choir), a Helsinki Swedish-language male chorus founded in 1878 by Gösta Sohlström by assembling the best singers from the University's Akademiska Sångföreningen (Academic Singing Society). The name came from a song by A. F. Riccius, for which the choir was famous. The choir took its early concert tours to Russia in 1882 and 1888, and to Sweden, Denmark, and Paris, in the 1880s. In the twentieth century tours included the Scandinavian countries, Iceland,...