PAHLMAN, OSCAR
(1839–1935)> ORGANIST · CHURCH MUSICIAN
PAHLMAN, OSCAR (Jan. 25, 1839, Turku–Apr. 12, 1935, Turku), organist and church musician, brother of Emil Pahlman. Following his studies in Dresden from 1862 to 1864, Pahlman spent ten years as organist in Vaasa from 1866 to 1876 and from 1876 at the Turku Cathedral. In 1878, with Carl Gustav Wasenius (see WASENIUS, CARL GUSTAV), he founded the Turku Cantor-Organist School (later the Turku church music school), where he served as a teacher and as its director until 1928 when he was nearly…