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    Aria from the opera Faust. Problems playing this file? See media help. Aino Ackté (originally Achte; 24 April 1876 – 8 August 1944) was a Finnish dramatic...
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    Aino Sibelius (née Järnefelt; 10 August 1871 – 8 June 1969) was the wife of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. They lived most of their 65 years of marriage...
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    the Kalevala, it was first performed in Finnish in September 1913 by Aino Ackté (to whom it had been dedicated) at the music festival in Gloucester, England...
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    frequent Sibelius collaborator) Aino Ackté, the tone poem's dedicatee. A few months later on 12 January 1914, Ackté gave Luonnotar its Finnish premiere...
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    Aino Aalto (1894–1949), Finnish architect and designer Aino Ackté (1876–1944), Finnish opera singer Aino Autio (1932–2022), Finnish sprinter Aino Bach...
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  • Association of Finnish Symphony Orchestras. Aino Ackté and other opera singers founded the Finnish Opera in 1911. Ackté began a festival in Savonlinna the following...
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  • keyboard player of Children of Bodom Emmy Achté (1876–1924) – mezzo-soprano Aino Ackté (1876–1944) – soprano Ida Basilier-Magelssen (1846–1928) – soprano Kim...
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    project. The piece, a commission by the world-renowned, Finnish prima donna Aino Ackté as a novelty for her February 1911 tour through Imperial Germany, was...
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    has been largely followed, one early notable exception being that of Aino Ackté, whom Strauss himself dubbed "the one and only Salome". Salome was first...
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    operas in the repertoire of the company. The Domestic Opera established by Aino Ackté and Edvard Fazer gave its first performance 2 October 1911. It later became...
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    translation: "Aino's Place") is a museum in Järvenpää, Finland, which was the home of a Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, his wife Aino (née Järnefelt)...
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    nationalist meeting in Olavinlinna Castle in 1907, the Finnish soprano Aino Ackté, already famous at opera houses the world over and an ardent patriot,...
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    Music School, in Helsinki in 1882. Achté died in Helsinki. His daughter Aino Ackté became a famous opera singer. Hillila, Ruth-Esther; Hong, Barbara Blanchard...
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    project. According to Tawaststjerna, Ackté and Aho had first offered the libretto to Sibelius in November 1912, as Ackté had "felt confident that he [Sibelius]...
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  • Finnish performance of Jean Sibelius's tone poem Luonnotar, with soprano Aino Ackté and conductor Georg Schnéevoigt. c. June – First publication of Orchestration...
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    notable social and cultural figures, led by the international star soprano Aino Ackté, founded the Domestic Opera in 1911. From the very beginning, the opera...
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  • Luonnotar is premiered in Gloucester Cathedral, England, with soprano Aino Ackté. September 17 – In Chicago, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith...
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    "The maiden may remain in her tower". When Emmy's daughter, the soprano Aino Ackté, wrote to him in November 1913 requesting to program The Maiden in the...
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    The libretto, a collaboration between Madetoja and the Finnish soprano Aino Ackté, is based on Juhani Aho's 1911 novel by the same name. The story takes...
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    Soprano Aino Ackté in the opera Salome (1905), by Richard Strauss...
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    at the Finnish National Theatre in Helsinki, with the Finnish soprano Aino Ackté as soloist accompanied by the Finnish composer Oskar Merikanto on piano...
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  • Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral, England, with soprano Aino Ackté and orchestra conducted by Herbert Brewer. October – Edison Diamond Disc...
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  • (1884-1898), Archibischop of Turku Heikki Renvall, fennoman, husband of Aino Ackté This page lists people with the surname Renvall. If an internal link intending...
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    family. Her mother was the internationally renowned operatic soprano Aino Ackté, and her father the lawyer, business executive and Senaattori (i.e. Minister)...
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    Mount (1875–1972) Anna Oscàr (1875–1915) Camilla Pasini (1875–1935) 1876 Aino Ackté (1876–1944) Lola Artôt de Padilla (1876 or 1880 –1933) Zina Brozia (1876–1958)...
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  • Juha is a three-act opera by Aarre Merikanto, with a Finnish libretto by Aino Ackté based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Juhani Aho. Although completed...
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    Kuula Leevi Madetoja Bengt de Törne [fi] Colleagues & friends Juhani Aho Aino Ackté Granville Bantock Ferruccio Busoni Axel Carpelan [fi] (patron) Olin Downes...
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    composer, as two momentous decisions soon followed: in September, he and Aino Järnefelt secretly engaged; moreover, he selected Vienna for his second year...
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    Ministry of Trade and Industry from 1917–1918. He married opera singer Aino Ackté, and their daughter was Glory Leppänen. Sainio, Venla (21 January 2009)...
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    Time Key Premiere Ref. Soloist Pianist Date Venue No. 1 Tranquillo assai Aino Ackté Oskar Merikanto 24 September 1908 (1908-09-24) Finnish National Theatre...
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