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Ilmari Hannikainen: Syysaatteita (The rain), Op.20 No.1

2,029 views · Published 31 August 2015 · 2:59 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays an eloquent invocation of rain, and the coming of autumn by the Finnish composer Ilmari Hannikainen (1892-1955)
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The Finnish composer Ilmari Hannikainen (1892-1955) came from a musical family: his father and brother (Väinö - featured elsewhere on my channel) were also composers, and another brother was a conductor.  Ilmari's musical teachers included Schreker in Vienna, Siloti in St. Petersburg, and Cortot in Paris.  He wrote an opera, a piano concerto, chamber music and film scores.  He died (possibly by his own hand) on a sailing trip.  This piece seemed a very appropriate upload for a wet late-August public holiday in England, where the summer already seemed a distant memory.  As a viewer eloquently puts it: “Summer is dying away and its bright colours are turning grey, both in nature and in the composer's mind”.

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