WEGELIUS, MARTIN (, Helsinki-, Helsinki), music pedagogue, composer, best-known for founding the Helsinki Music Institute (known as the Helsinki Conservatory from 1924 to 1939, the Sibelius Academy from 1939).
Despite the fact that Wegelius grew up in an extremely strict religious atmosphere that excluded all the arts, he determined to be a musician from an early age. At the university he sought a liberal education, receiving his master's degree in 1869, while...