Aulis Sallinen
Finnish · 3 operas in the catalogue
Aulis Heikki Sallinen (born 9 April 1935) is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. His music has been variously described as "remorselessly harsh", a "beautifully crafted amalgam of several 20th-century styles", and "neo-romantic". Sallinen studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen. He has had works commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, and has also written seven operas, eight symphonies, concertos for violin, cello, flute, horn, and English horn, as well as several chamber works. He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1978 for his opera Ratsumies (The Horseman).
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Operas in the Opera Almanac Catalogue
- 1984 Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan, 1984
- 1992 Kullervo, 1992
- 2000 Kuningas Lear, 2000 Finnish