Aulis Sallinen at the Academic Bookstore in Helsinki, Finland, in 2009 Aulis Sallinen (born April 9, 1935 in Salmi) 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...
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Aulis Sallinen at the Academic Bookstore in Helsinki, Finland, in 2009 Aulis Sallinen (born April 9, 1935 in Salmi) 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...