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Selim Palmgren

1878 - 1951

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Selim Gustaf Adolf Palmgren (16 February 1878 – 13 December 1951) was a Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor. Palmgren was born in Pori, Finland, February 16, 1878. He studied at the Conservatory in Helsinki from 1895 to 1899, then continued his piano studies in Berlin with Ansorge, Berger and Busoni. He conducted choral and orchestral societies in his own country and made several very successful concert tours as a pianist in the principal cities of Finland and Scandinavia, appearing also as a visiting conductor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Selim Palmgren is the 879th most popular composer (down from 829th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Finland (down from 135th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Finnish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Selim Palmgren ranks 879 out of 1,451. Before him are Julius Reubke, Loyset Compère, Frank Bridge, Louis Andriessen, Giuseppe Martucci, and Johann Friedrich Reichardt. After him are Keiko Abe, Federico Moreno Torroba, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Joseph Canteloube, and Käbi Laretei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Selim Palmgren ranks 134. Before him are Max Dehn, Margaret Abbott, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Lina Stern, Luís of Orléans-Braganza, and Anton Heida. After him are Karl Buresch, Anna Coleman Ladd, Julie Manet, René Maire, Konrad Mägi, and Aino Kallas. Among people deceased in 1951, Selim Palmgren ranks 102. Before him are Ernesto Ambrosini, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Abanindranath Tagore, John Paine, and Pedro Salinas. After him are José Enrique Varela, Edgar Rubin, Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Fritz Julius Kuhn, Angelos Sikelianos, and Harry Kerr.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Selim Palmgren ranks 150 out of 751. Before him are Hugo Österman (1892), Timo Salonen (1951), Taina Elg (1930), Juho Vennola (1872), Leo Kinnunen (1943), and Martin Wegelius (1846). After him are Juha Sipilä (1961), Ellen Thesleff (1869), Eero Lehtonen (1898), Aarre Merikanto (1893), Robert Kajanus (1856), and Matti Pellonpää (1951).

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Among COMPOSERS In Finland

Among composers born in Finland, Selim Palmgren ranks 7. Before him are Jean Sibelius (1865), Kaija Saariaho (1952), Bernhard Crusell (1775), Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928), Oskar Merikanto (1868), and Martin Wegelius (1846). After him are Leevi Madetoja (1887), Erkki Aaltonen (1910), Kalevi Aho (1949), Magnus Lindberg (1958), Toivo Kuula (1883), and Joonas Kokkonen (1921).

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