Tauno Pylkkänen
Tauno Kullervo Pylkkänen (March 22, 1918 – March 13, 1980) was a Finnish composer. He was a popular opera composer and was nicknamed during his lifetime as Northern Puccini. Pylkkänen was an orphan born in Helsinki during the Finnish Civil War whom actor Hilma Rantanen and office manager Väinö Veikko Pylkkänen adopted as their foster son from a newspaper advertisement. His real father, Heikki Pakarinen, who had fallen into the Red Guard against his will, died in the Hämeenlinna prison camp in August 1918. Pylkkänen was a student of Leevi Madetoja and Selim Palmgren, and studied at the Helsinki Conservatory, then in Paris, Rome, and Vienna. He made his breakthrough as a composer with the opera Mare ja hänen poikansa (1943) after Aino Kallas, which was premiered in the Finnish Opera in 1945. It was followed by ten more operas, including the internationally successful Sudenmorsian (1950). From 1960 to 1967 he was artistic director of the Finnish Opera. In addition to the operas he composed a symphony, a symphonic fantasy, six symphonic poems, a cello concerto, chamber music works, a cantata, film music, a choir cycle for women's voices, songs and two song cycles.
Genre: finnish-classical
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- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 2: Nyt sanosta minulle, Sakalan vanhin, ja kerro kuinka tuho tuli (Mare, Mango)
- Pastorale
- Pastorale
- Kuoleman joutsen, Op. 21: II. Pastorale
- Ruskojen ruusut, op. 26/3
- En tiedä muistatko mua, op. 26/1
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 2: Tuolla ylhaalla pilvien palteilla poikani Imant minua vartoo (Mare, Female Chorus)
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 2: Suvioina joutsenet lahdeltasi joikui (Mare)
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 2: Lyokaa hanet maahan! (Chorus, Sopranos, Altos, Women, Men)
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 2: Taas tuo laulu! (Mare, Mango)
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 2: Nyt han on kuollut, minun poikani Imant on kuollut (Mare, Female Chorus)
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 2: Nyt saatte vieda hautaan poikani Imantin (Mare, Mango, Female Chorus)
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 2: Imant, Valdekon poika on kuollut (Mango, Mare, Female Chorus)
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 2: Viekaa hautaan, viekaa hautaan (Female Chorus)
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 1: Interlude
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 1: Mene tykoani, aiti, etta jaisin yksin! (Imant, Mare)
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 1: Kuule minua, poikani Imant, silla nain on (Mare, Imant)
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 1: Ala sekoita, aiti! (Imant, Mare)
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 1: He ovat tapetut! (Mare, Imant)
- Mare ja hanen poikansa (Mare and her Son), Op. 22: Act III Scene 1: Jata lastenlorut, aiti! (Imant, Mare)
Albums (20)
- Scenes from the Kalevala (2021)
- Aarioita ja lauluja (2019)
- Tauno Pylkkänen / Lauluja (2019)
- Minä laulan sun iltasi tähtihin (1970)
- A Portrait - Recordings 1954 - 1970 (2017)
- Voyage Home: Songs of Finland, Sweden & Norway (2014)
- An Anthology of Finnish Piano Music, Vol. 5 (2014)
- Äänityksiä 1951 - 1962 (2014)
- Pekka Nuotio — Opera Arias (Recorded 1973-1981) (2013)
- Ice Flowers (2011)
- Kiitosta soi lauluni (2010)
- Pylkkanen: Mare and Her Son (2005)
- Vuodet - Polyteknikkojen Kuoro 100 vuotta (1970)
- Vocal Recital: Isokoski, Soile - Finnish Sacred Songs (Suomalainen Rukous) (2003)
- Vocal Recital: Hynninen, Jorma / Ruuttunen, Esa / Tiilikainen, Sauli - Kokkonen, J. / Dvorak, A. / Pylkkanen, T. / Tikka, K. / Piiparinen, M. (1999)
- Tiensuu: Le Tombeau De Mozart - Crusell: Introduction Et Air Suédois Varié (1998)
- Arias and Songs - Aarioita ja lauluja (1970)
- Finnish Vocal Music (1990)
- Sinun tahtoasi minä kysyn (1985)
- Sinua siunata tahdon (1984)
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