SALLINEN, AULIS (, Salmi), composer, conductor, and teacher.
Sallinen studied music education and composition at the Sibelius Academy from 1955 to 1960. From 1960 to 1970 he was manager of the Radio Symphony orchestra. From 1963 to 1976 he taught composition, counterpoint, and harmony at the Sibelius Academy.
His works of the 1960s show his style changing from serialism to one of free tonality, interest in variation forms and neo-classical older styles, such as the passacaglia,...