Frans Oskar Merikanto was a Finnish musician and composer.
Aarre Merikanto was a Finnish composer.
Usko Aatos Meriläinen was a Finnish composer. He was born in Tampere.
Chydenius is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Aino Ackté was a Finnish soprano. She was the first international star of the Finnish opera scene after Alma Fohström, and a groundbreaker for the domestic field.
Mattsson is a Swedish surname.
Krohn is the surname of several people:
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra is a Finnish broadcast orchestra based in Helsinki, and the orchestra of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle). The orchestra primarily gives concerts at the Helsinki Music Centre. Primary funding comes from television licence fees from the Finnish population.
Vilho Luolajan-Mikkola was a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music.
Toivo Ilmari Hannikainen was a Finnish composer and virtuoso pianist.
Järnefelt is a surname originating in Sweden and Finland. Notable people with the surname include:
Heinonen is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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 by 1922, it was only finally staged at the music college in Lahti on 28 October 1963. The story is a drama of a love triangle: the older husband Juha, his young wife Marja, and her seducer the merchant Shemeikka. Set in the 1880s in Kainuu in northern Finland, the human tragedy is based around the harsh realities of a farming community and the clash of their lifestyle with the more worldly nomadic Karelians, represented by Shemeikka.
Kuusisto is a Finnish surname. As of 2013, there are more than 10,000 Finnish people registered with this surname.
Hannikainen is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Juha is a masculine given name.
Seppo Erkki Sakari Heikinheimo was a Finnish musicologist, music journalist, writer and translator.
Ukri Uolevi Merikanto was a Finnish sculptor.
Juha, Op. 74, is an verismo opera in three acts by the Finnish composer Leevi Madetoja, who wrote the piece from 1931–34. The libretto, a collaboration between Madetoja and the Finnish soprano Aino Ackté, is based on Juhani Aho's novel by the same name. The story takes place around 1880 in northern Finland, and features as its central conflict a love triangle between the farmer Juha, his young wife Marja, and a Karelian merchant, Shemeikka. Disillusioned with rural life and seduced by promises of material comfort and romance, Marja runs away with Shemeikka; Juha, who maintains his wife has been abducted, eventually discovers her betrayal and kills himself.
Simonen is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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