SALMENHAARA, ERKKI
(, Helsinki), composer and musicologist, one of the Finnish Musical Youth composers, along with Henrik Otto Donner and Kari Rydman, involved in 1960s happenings, dubbed nursery chamber concerts.
Salmenhaara studied composition with Joonas Kokkonen at the Sibelius Academy, graduating in 1963, and in Vienna with György Ligeti. In 1970 he completed his doctorate in musicology at the University of Helsinki. His dissertation was on his former teacher, Das musikalische...