Uuno Klami

Uuno Kalervo Klami (Known as "Klami")

Modernist Classical Composer, Member of the Academy of Finland

Born Sep 20, 1900

Virolahti, Finland

Passed Away May 29, 1961 Virolahti, Finland

Lifespan 60 years old

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"An artist must forge his music in the modern furnace of rhythm, without sentimental tears."

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Brilliant orchestral modernist who broke away from Sibelian late-romanticism by infusing French impressionism and Stravinskyan rhythms into Finnish national mythology, author of the monumental 'Kalevala Suite'.

Biographical Record

Uuno Kalervo Klami was born in Virolahti on September 20, 1900. After initial studies in Helsinki, Klami lived in Paris and Vienna in the 1920s, absorbing the kinetic polyrhythms of Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky.

His 1928 masterwork Karelian Rhapsody caused a sensation, followed by his supreme orchestral achievement, the Kalevala Suite (Op. 23, 1943), which depicted the creation of the earth and the forging of the Sampo with explosive, glittering French orchestration. In 1959, he was elected to the prestigious Academy of Finland.

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Final Resting Place

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Virolahti Cemetery (Virolahden kirkkomaa)
Virolahti, Kymenlaakso, Finland

                         GPS: 60.5830, 27.7000                    

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