PARMET, SIMON (originally Pergament) (, Helsinki–, Helsinki), conductor of opera, orchestras, choruses, and musicologist who published analyses of Sibelius's symphonies and other works, composer, and arranger.
Parmet presented his own compositions at the age of sixteen in 1914, Ten Pieces for Piano (1913), and performed as soloist in the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 with Robert Kajanus (see KAJANUS, ROBERT) directing the orchestra. He began studies at the...