Tauno Pylkkänen
Born: 22nd March 1918, Helsinki, Finland
Died: 13th March 1980, Helsinki, Finland
Nationality: Finnish
Tauno Kullervo Pylkkänen 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.
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