Composers

Erkki Melartin

Piano
Violin
Cello
Orchestra
Voice
Viola
Organ
Piano four hands
Mixed chorus
Piece
Prelude
Incidental music
Dance
Song
Fantasia
Suite
Sonata
Ballades
Quartet
by popularity

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2 Ballades, Op.53 Festliga preludier och två intermezzi, Op.1123 Piano Pieces, Op.1263 Piano Pieces, Op.333 Piano Pieces, Op.83 String Quartets, Op.364 Klavierstücke, Op.674 Piano Pieces, Op.274 Piano Pieces, Op.755 Piano Pieces, Op.115 Piano Pieces, Op.255 Songs, Op.696 Little Pieces, Op.1216 Piano Pieces, Op.1236 Piano Pieces, Op.1296 Piano Pieces, Op.77 Piano Pieces, Op.989 Little Pieces, Op.76

A

Album Leaves, Op.83

D

Den hemlighetsfulla skogen, Op.118

E

Erkki Melartin

F

FantaisieFestliches Preludium, EM 46

H

Hiiden miekka, Op.39

I

Intermezzi, Op.16

K

Kaksi viikkoa, Op.143Kehruulaulu, Op.35 No.8Kuningas Kandaules, Op.102

L

Lastuja I, Op.7Lastuja II, Op.9Lastuja III, Op.34Lastuja IV, Op.48Legend I, Op.6Legend II, Op.12Legend IV, Op.174Lyric Pieces, Op.18Lyrik I, Op.59Lyrik II, Op.127

M

Marionnettes, Op.1Menuetto for Cello and PianoMiniatures, Op.23

N

Noli me tangere, Op.87

P

Pennteckningar, Op.92Piano Pieces, Op.87aPiano Sonata No.1, Op.111Piano Sonatina, Op.84Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op.44Pienoiskuvia II, Op.35Pienoiskuvia III, Op.53Preludes, Op.85

R

Röster ur Skymningen, Op.110

S

Salome, Op.41Silhouetter, Op.120Sininen helmi, Op.160Skuggspel, Op.104String Trio, Op.133Sursum corda, Op.125Surullinen Puutarha, Op.52Symphony No.6, Op.100

T

Tulitanssi, EM 238

V

Valitus, EM 247Variationen und Fuge über ein Originalthema, Op.2

W

Walzer-miniaturen, Op.49
Wikipedia
Erkki Melartin (7 February 1875 in Käkisalmi – 14 February 1937 in Pukinmäki) was a Finnish composer. He was a pupil of Martin Wegelius from 1892 to 1899 in Helsinki and of Robert Fuchs from 1899 to 1901 in Vienna.
As well as composing, Melartin also taught and directed music at the Helsinki Music College, later the Helsinki Conservatory. As conductor of the Vyborg Orchestra in 1908–11, and despite chronic health problems, Melartin toured extensively (as far as North Africa and India), conducting the first performance of Gustav Mahler's music in Scandinavia, the slow movement of the Resurrection symphony in 1909.
Although Melartin was chiefly a lyricist, the symphony was central to his musical output. He wrote six symphonies (1902–1924) and was the first Finnish composer to bear Mahler's influence. The fourth symphony uses a vocalise like that of Carl Nielsen's Sinfonia Espansiva. The fifth is a Sinfonia brevis ending in a fugue and chorale, while the sixth, harmonically more advanced than the other five, advances stepwise from a C minor first movement – with evocations of Mahler's second symphony – to an E-flat major finale. His musical output also includes an opera, Aino (based on the character from the Finnish national epic), a violin concerto, four string quartets, and many piano pieces. His works therefore are divided mainly into large-scale works for orchestra, and chamber pieces for much smaller groups and soloists. Despite working in the same time period as Jean Sibelius he was not influenced by the more famous composer's style, and his work has been largely overshadowed by that of Finland's most revered composer.
The Juhlamarssi (Festive March) from his ballet Sleeping Beauty is the most popular wedding march in Finland.
Song by Vilhelm Krag and Erkki Melartin