TAVASTSTJERNA, FRANS AUGUST (, Karlberg, Sweden–, St. Petersburg), military man, self-taught tenor soloist and composer of church songs and an operetta.
Frans August Tavaststjerna was born in Sweden of a Finnish family which moved there after the 1809 war. Upon the death of the father, the mother brought the family back to Finland. Frans served as a military officer in Finland from 1839 to 1849 and later was in public service in Sweden and Estonia...