COMPOSER

Toivo Kuula

1883 - 1918

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Toivo Timoteus Kuula (7 July 1883 – 18 May 1918) was a Finnish composer and conductor of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods, who emerged in the wake of Jean Sibelius, under whom he studied privately from 1906 to 1908. The core of Kuula's oeuvre are his many works for voice and orchestra, in particular the Stabat mater (1914–18; completed by Madetoja), The Sea-Bathing Maidens (1910), Son of a Slave (1910), and The Maiden and the Boyar's Son (1912). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toivo Kuula has received more than 67,032 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Toivo Kuula is the 1,082nd most popular composer (down from 1,069th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from Finland (down from 209th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Finnish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Toivo Kuula ranks 1,082 out of 1,451. Before him are Leonard Rosenman, Jean Gilbert, Sylvano Bussotti, Jean Langlais, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, and Henri Pousseur. After him are Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, Carter Burwell, Johann Nicolaus Bach, Raymond Scott, Julius Rietz, and Jaromír Weinberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Toivo Kuula ranks 182. Before him are Huang Fu, D. S. Senanayake, Feodor Gladkov, Élie Lescot, Tom Moore, and Gheorghe Argeșanu. After him are Olaf Bull, Maurice Feltin, Mel Sheppard, Alberto Braglia, Oszkár Gerde, and Enoch L. Johnson. Among people deceased in 1918, Toivo Kuula ranks 138. Before him are Harold Lockwood, Władysław Ślewiński, Émile Étienne Guimet, Savva Mamontov, Victor Willems, and Milan Neralić. After him are Lucretia Garfield, Bohumil Kubišta, Rudolf Tobias, John McCrae, Marcel Deprez, and Ali Aaltonen.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Toivo Kuula ranks 241 out of 751. Before him are Harri Rovanperä (1966), Veikko Kankkonen (1940), Timo Tolkki (1966), Rafael Erich (1879), Mari Kiviniemi (1968), and Jari Kurri (1960). After him are Jukka-Pekka Saraste (1956), Leo Makkonen (1948), Peter Franzén (1971), Janne Ahonen (1977), Katri Helena (1945), and Erkki Tuomioja (1946).

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Among COMPOSERS In Finland

Among composers born in Finland, Toivo Kuula ranks 11. Before him are Oskar Merikanto (1868), Selim Palmgren (1878), Martin Wegelius (1846), Erkki Aaltonen (1910), Leevi Madetoja (1887), and Kalevi Aho (1949). After him are Joonas Kokkonen (1921), and Magnus Lindberg (1958).

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