About Aulis Sallinen
Aulis Sallinen (born April 9, 1935) is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. He writes in a modern, though tonal and not experimental music style. He studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen. He has written 6 operas, 8 symphonies, a Violin Concerto and any number of chamber works. He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1978 for his opera Ratsumies (The Horseman). His first instruments were violin and piano.
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Sunrise Serenade, Op. 63
Kullervo, Op. 61: Act I Scene 2: Mina tahdon olla tuoksuva ja lammin kuin nuori leipa (Smith's Young Wife)
Ritornello for viollin solo / viululle / f”r violin, Op. 36
String Quartet No. 3
Kullervo, Op. 61, Act I Scene 2: "Minä tahdon olla tuoksuva ja lämmin kuin nuori leipä..."
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Symphony No. 8, Op. 81, "Autumnal Fragments"
Elegia Sebastian Knightille (Elegy for Sebastian Knight), Op. 10
Winter Was Hard, Op. 20 (arr. for Chorus, Organ & String Quartet by Kronos Quartet)
Winter Was Hard
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