Helvi Leiviskä
Helvi Lemmikki Leiviskä (born May 25, 1902 in Helsinki ; † August 12, 1982 there ) was a Finnish composer .
Life
At the later Sibelius Academy in Helsinki she studied piano with Ilmari Hannikainen , composition with Erkki Melartin , in Vienna counterpoint with Arthur Willner and, again in Finland, composition with Leevi Madetoja . She worked as a piano teacher, music critic and from 1933 to 1968 as a librarian at the Sibelius Academy. She made her compositional debut with her piano concerto (1935). After the war she continued her studies with Leo Funtek in Helsinki. Her main works are the symphonies (1947–71). In 1962 she was awarded the Pro Finlandia Medal.
Helvi Leiviskä is considered the first well-known Finnish composer. She composed three symphonies and a Sinfonia brevis , a piano concerto, other orchestral works as well as choral, chamber, piano and film music. Stylistically, it was initially based on the romantic tradition in Bruckner's wake , later it took on influences from neoclassicism and developed further in the direction of a free tonality .
Works (selection)
- Piano quartet op. 1, 1926
- Piano concerto op.7, 1935
- Juha after Juhani Aho , film music, 1937
- Pimeän peikko for choir and orchestra op.15, 1942/48 (based on words by Eino Leino )
- Sonata for violin and piano op.21, 1945
- 1st Symphony op.23, 1947
- 2nd Symphony op.27, 1954
- Mennyt manner op. 28, 1957 (after words by Eino Leino)
- Sinfonia brevis op. 30, 1962, rev. 1972
- 3rd Symphony op.31, 1971
literature
- Rune J. Andersen: Helvi Lemmikki Leiviskä. In: Store Norske Leksikon . February 14, 2009, accessed October 15, 2018 .
- Kimmo Korhonen: Leiviskä, Helvi. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- Tomi Mäkelä : Leiviskä, Helvi. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 10 (Kemp - Lert). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1120-9 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- Eila Tarasti: Nouse, ole kirkas! Helvi Leiviskän elämä ja teokset . Kulttuuriperintöjen akatemia, Suomen Semiotiikan Seura, Helsinki 2017, ISBN 978-952-68821-0-9 (Finnish).
Web links
- Biography and Literature ( Memento of June 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in the Finnish Music Information Center (under Contemporary and Composers )
- Helvi Leiviskä in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- List of works at Music Finland
- Juha Torvinen: Leiviskä at last. In: Finnish Music Quarterly. March 6, 2013, accessed October 10, 2018 .
Remarks
- ↑ Most of the Finnish and English sources name Helsinki as the place of birth and death, the MGG gives Hämeelinna
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ruth Ester Hillila, Barbara Blanchard Hong: Leiviskä, Helvi . In: Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland . Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut 1997, ISBN 0-313-27728-1 , pp. 217-218 .
- ↑ List of medalists
- ^ Peter Kislinger: The Finns in Vienna. Music stories from the north. In: Musikfreunde. Monthly newspaper of the Vienna Music Association. November 2016, accessed September 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Short CV and CD review from November 23, 2012 on Music Finland
- ↑ Kimmo Korhonen: Leiviskä, Helvi . In: Julie Anne Sadie, Rhian Samuel (Eds.): The Norton / Grove dictionary of women composers . Norton, New York 1995, ISBN 0-333-51598-6 , pp. 277 .
- ↑ Juha (1937) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Information about the film on Elonet (Finnish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leiviska, Helvi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leiviskä, Helvi Lemmikki |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsinki |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1982 |
| Place of death | Helsinki |