TURKU MUSICAL SOCIETY (Musikaliska Sällskapet i Abo, in Swedish, or, Turun soitannollinen seura, in Finnish), a society which was founded in 1790 and stimulated interest in orchestral and chamber music, the first significant flourishing of musical life in Finland.
During the Gustavian period at the end of the eighteenth century, the arts truly thrived in the Swedish empire. Artistic and literary secret societies sprang up all over Europe. In Stockholm in the 1760s the Utile Dulci Society was founded;...