RAUTAVAARA, EINOJUHANI (b 1928 )
Einojuhani Rautavaara is one of the most colourful and diverse figures in Finnish music. He is an artist of exceptionally broad scope, at once Romantic and intellectual, mysticist and constructivist. He has gone through a great many stages in his stylistic development, yet he has combined different stylistic elements in post-modernist fashion within individual works. Rautavaara began his career under the influence of post-war Neo-Classicism; in the 1950s, he began to apply twelve-tone procedures and progressed in some works to quite a modernist idiom. On the other hand, even works written close to each other in time could differ widely in their approach; for instance, in his Third Symphony, written in the middle of his twelve-tone period, he gave free rein to the luscious Romantic emotion that came to dominate his music from the late 1960s onwards. Since the late 1970s, he has been creating a synthesis of various stylistic influences. Rautavaaras extensive and versatile output contains several operas, seven symphonies, other orchestral works, concertos, chamber music, piano music and vocal music. Rautavaara has been a major Finnish composer since the 1950s, and has been steadily gaining in international esteem, especially in the 1990s.
Discography (8)

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Wordsworth: The Great Poets
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$14.98
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Mar 1, 2008
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Naxos Audio Books
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Classic Erotic Verse
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$17.98
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Jan 1, 2009
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Naxos Audio Books
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Evenng Wind
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$16.99
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Jan 1, 2009
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CLARION
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Ives, C.: Songs, Vol. 5
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$9.99
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Oct 28, 2008
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Naxos American Classics
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Ives, C.: Songs, Vol. 3
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$9.99
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Aug 26, 2008
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Naxos American Classics
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Collection: A Lover's Gift - From Him To Her
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$14.98
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Nov 1, 2006
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Naxos Audio Books
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Seven Ages - An Anthology of Poetry With Music
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$17.98
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Mar 31, 2000
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Naxos Audio Books
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Choral Concert: Ucla Madrigal Singers - Pinkham, D. / Chihara, P. / Stevens, H. / Thompson, R. / Spencer, W. / Barber, S. / Mechem, K.
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$16.99
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Jan 1, 1992
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Cambria
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