TUUKKANEN, KALERVO (, Mikkeli–, Helsinki), composer, teacher, orchestral and choral conductor.
Tuukkanen completed his university degree in 1933 and also studied with Leevi Madetoja, Ilmari Krohn, and Arvo Laitinen. He taught music theory and history at the Viipuri Music School from 1935 to 1938 and became a vocal music teacher at the Helsinki elementary schools in 1935 and from 1938 to 1941 and at a girls’ high school from 1938 to 1969. He was a music...