By

SELIM PALMGREN

16th February 1878   ---   13th December 1951

Selim Palmgren was born in Bjorneborg,  Finland in 1878.   In 1895 he went to Helsingfors Conservatoire,  where he studied  composition under
Wegelius and piano under Petzet. He afterwards worked with Ansorge and Busoni, and on his return to Finland became conductor of the Finnish
Students choral society and later of the Musical Society at Abo.

From 1912 he has held no fixed appointment but he now devoted himself to composition and has undertaken concert  tours with his wife Maikki
Jarnefelt, a singer.  Palmgren has written two operas,  Daniel Hjort  (produced at Helsingfors 1910) and Peter Schlemihl,  three piano concertos,
and some pieces for violin and piano but it's in his smaller piano works that his delicate and poetical writing finds the most appropriate medium.

Among the best known of these are the Finnish Lyrics, Finnish Lullaby, the studies, Preludium, The Sea, The Swan, Light & Shade and Bird Song.
He travelled to the U.S.A and later returned to Finland, he died 1951 in Helsinki, aged 73.

Copyright 1953 Encyclopaedia Britannica

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