Pluralismus im Norden Europas: Finnische Musikgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert

Music history in Finland began with Jean Sibelius, the godfather of Finnish music. Kalevi Aho divided Finland's music history into three stages. The first, lasting from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, was an era of Neoclassicism and Romanticism. This segued into an avant-garde phase in which composers sought to attain stylistic freedom and modernity. In the 1990s, the Finnish music scene broadened into a pluralistic community of different styles.