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Martin Wegelius

1846 - 1906

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Martin Wegelius (10 November 1846 – 22 March 1906) was a Finnish composer and musicologist, primarily remembered as the founder, in 1882, of the Helsinki Music Institute, now known as the Sibelius Academy. Wegelius studied in Leipzig, Vienna and Munich. He had intended to pursue a career as a composer, and wrote handful of orchestral works and a significant number of chamber and vocal works. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Wegelius has received more than 26,672 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Wegelius is the 881st most popular composer (up from 1,016th in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Finland (up from 177th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Finnish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Martin Wegelius ranks 881 out of 1,451. Before him are Leo Fall, Zacharia Paliashvili, Per Nørgård, Henri Tomasi, Galina Ustvolskaya, and Albéric Magnard. After him are David Del Tredici, Ernst Toch, Giuseppe Martucci, Loyset Compère, Franz Tunder, and Philippe Gaubert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Martin Wegelius ranks 65. Before him are Ottomar Anschütz, Vladimir Makovsky, Hayranidil Kadın, Louis Billot, Björn Jónsson, and Charles Stewart Parnell. After him are Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Max von Hausen, Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz, Anna Kingsford, Lewis Boss, and Marie Popelin. Among people deceased in 1906, Martin Wegelius ranks 44. Before him are Princess Mathilde of Bavaria, Alfred Stevens, Étienne Carjat, Carl Schurz, Kosta Khetagurov, and Princess Alexandrine of Prussia. After him are Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Ferdinand Brunetière, Georges Rayet, Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ernst Josephson, and Stevan Sremac.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Martin Wegelius ranks 146 out of 751. Before him are Juha Sipilä (1961), Antti Hyvärinen (1932), Magnus Enckell (1870), Kalevi Sorsa (1930), Ville Valo (1976), and Robert Kajanus (1856). After him are Lill Lindfors (1940), Johan Wilhelm Rangell (1894), Jorma Panula (1930), Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870), Paavo Talvela (1897), and Toivo Mikael Kivimäki (1886).

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Among COMPOSERS In Finland

Among composers born in Finland, Martin Wegelius ranks 7. Before him are Jean Sibelius (1865), Bernhard Crusell (1775), Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928), Kaija Saariaho (1952), Oskar Merikanto (1868), and Selim Palmgren (1878). After him are Erkki Aaltonen (1910), Leevi Madetoja (1887), Kalevi Aho (1949), Toivo Kuula (1883), Joonas Kokkonen (1921), and Magnus Lindberg (1958).

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