SCHANTZ, JOHAN FILIP VON (, Ulvila–, Helsinki), composer and conductor, folk music collector, one of the first to be awarded public stipends for music study in Leipzig.
While von Schantz was studying law at the University in Helsinki he was also engaged in collecting folk music under the auspices of the Finnish Literature Society. At the same time as Karl Collan, von Schantz toured central and eastern Finland in 1855 and, as a result, published a...