October 9 - Einojuhani Rautavaara (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for October 9th are here: Camille Saint-Saëns (2019) and John Lennon; Sean Ono Lennon; Camille Saint-Saëns (2020)

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Einojuhani Rautavaara (9 October 1928 – 27 July 2016) was by most reckonings the most important Finnish composer since Sibelius.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rautavaara Interrrrresting

Would Einojuhani Rautavaara,

Whose name is hard unless you are a

            Finn,

Be just as famous as Sibelius

If he had thought to use an alias

            In

The wider world? An “also known as”,

Perhaps more catchy than his own has

            Been?

Whatever the downsides of his name were.

I think his chances, all the same, were

            Thin.

 

 

 

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