Composers: Details

Equally renowned as a composer and as a conductor, Melartin was responsible in the early decades of this century for introducing Finnish audiences to the music of Mahler, Strauss, and other moderns. His own music - crowned by the six symphonies - reveals his complete familiarity with the late Romantic style, while maintaining a richly individual voice.

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600 Hyvyyden voiman ihmeelliseen suojaan
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 60
Juhlamarssi näytelmästä Prinsessa Ruusunen (Festive March)
Kerjäläislapsen kehtolaulu (Lullaby for a Beggar Boy)
Kristuslapsen kehtolaulu (The Christchild's Lullaby)
Lapin joulu
Legends, Op. 98
Marian kehtolaulu
Marjatta, Op. 79 for soprano and orchestra
Minä metsän polkuja kuljen (Along forest paths I wander)
Mirjamin laulu I (Miriam's Song I)
Mirjamin laulu II (Miriam's Song II)
Noli me tangere, Op. 87
Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 111 "Fantasia Apocaliptica"
Prinsessa Ruusunen (Sleeping Beauty Suite), Op. 22
Sade (Rain), from Surullinen puutarha (The Melancholy Garden), Op. 52 (1908)
Sirkan häämatka (The Grasshopper's Honeymoon)
String Trio, Op. 133
Suite lyrique No. 3 "Impressions de Belgique"
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 30/1 (1902)
Symphony No. 2 (1904)
Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 40 (1907)
Symphony No. 4, Op. 80 "Summer Symphony" (1912)
Symphony No. 5, Op. 90 "Sinfonia Brevis" (1916)
Symphony No. 6, Op. 100 (1925)
Music from the ballet The Blue Pearl, Op. 160
The Melancholy Garden, Op. 52
Three Pieces for Piano, Op. 8
Traumgesicht, Op. 70