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Aulis Sallinen

1935 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aulis Sallinen is the 1,115th most popular composer (down from 1,023rd in 2019), the 1,641st most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,474th in 2019) and the 55th most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Aulis Sallinen ranks 1,115 out of 1,451. Before him are Gottfried August Homilius, Emil Paur, Johanna Kinkel, Koji Kondo, Einar Englund, and Jacopo da Bologna. After him are Yasushi Akutagawa, Harry Partch, Girolamo Diruta, Marcello Abbado, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, and Ture Rangström.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Aulis Sallinen ranks 319. Before him are Pjetër Arbnori, Hanna Krall, Nancy Kovack, Alexander Men, Alfredo Hernández, and John Patrick Foley. After him are Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Roberto Ferreiro, Enzo Jannacci, Régine Deforges, Sultan Ali Keshtmand, and Geraldine Ferraro.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aulis Sallinen ranks 1,641 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Solovyov (1946), Ivan Kireyevsky (1806), Yuriy Voynov (1931), Alexander Mikulin (1895), Georg Schnéevoigt (1872), and Leonid Kharitonov (1933). After him are Eugene Dynkin (1924), Gombojab Tsybikov (1873), Zainab Biisheva (1908), Mikhail Zharov (1899), Marfa Apraksina (1664), and Natalya Seleznyova (1945).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Aulis Sallinen ranks 55. Before him are Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), Gavriil Popov (1904), Karen Khachaturian (1920), Alexander Serov (1820), Nikolai Roslavets (1881), and Valeri Brainin (1948). After him are Shlomo Mintz (1957), Dimitri Arakishvili (1873), Andrei Eshpai (1925), Boris Tishchenko (1939), Sergei Slonimsky (1932), and Vladimir Martynov (1946).

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