Väinö Raitio
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Väinö Raitio (1891-1945) was part of the small group of composers who appeared in the Finnish art music scene in the 1920s with a new cosmopolitan music style, much different to the dominating conservative National Romanticism.
Raitio's career as a composer reached its peak in the 1920s when eight large symphonic poems appeared from his pen. Influenced by Scriabin, his style was too modern for the Nordic music circles, and his orchestral work Joutsenet (The Swans, Les Cygnes) of 1919 remained as the sole orchestral work to be published (in 1938).
Raitio's profile as a composer degraded into smaller works for smaller ensembles in the 1930s and 1940s. In the private side, however, much effort was done by the composer to write operatic works. Still today, the five Operas are only known as the composers hand-written manuscripts.
Väinö Raitio Society (mostly in English)
 This article on a European composer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
