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as yardsticks when evaluating musical accomplishments. In the 1960s Heikinheimo was an advocate of musical modernism and radicalism but later became very suspicious of contemporary music, alienating his former friends.
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The last vicissitudes of Heikinheimo's life were dramatic: he wrote his memoir but seemed to suffer from an unstable state of mind. After having sent the manuscript to his publisher
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by Dmitri Shostakovich which he made directly from the Russian-language manuscript. Heikinheimo is known to have used pen names "Antti Virtanen" ja "Raimo Ontronen".
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Translated by Brad Absetz. Acta Musicologica Fennica, 6. Ph.D. thesis. Helsinki University. Helsinki: Suomen musiikkitieteellinen seura, 1972.
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As a critic, Heikinheimo was harsh and sharp. He only knew excellence and inferiority; mediocrity was the worst he could think of. He used
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newspaper in 1959, first as a photographer and then as a writer. In 1963, recommended by Tawaststjerna, he moved on to
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Heikinheimo's literary output as a writer, translator and editor was wide. He wrote three voluminous biographies, on
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The Electronic Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen: Studies on the Esthetical and Formal Problems of its First Phase.
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A categorical and highly controversial person, Heikinheimo was proud of his Finnish fatherland and despised the
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and worked the rest of his life there as a music journalist. On the top of that, he also worked as an
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Seppo Heikinheimo's father was the pianist Sakari Heikinheimo. Seppo begun his piano studies with
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A couple of months later the book was published, with the uncompromising title
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and others. Of special significance is his translation of the controversial
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Seppo Heikinheimo was married to the singer (mezzo-soprano)
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In the early 1990s, Heikinheimo was active in starting the
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Aarre Merikanto: Säveltäjänkohtalo itsenäisessä Suomessa.
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as the language of the occupiers. He was critical of the
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Valitetut teokset: Esseitä ja arvosteluja 1991–2011
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Valitetut teokset: Esseitä ja arvosteluja 1991–2011
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Helsinki
musicologist
music journalist
Erik Tawaststjerna
matriculation examination
classical philology
Helsinki University
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Uusi Suomi
Helsingin Sanomat
intendant
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
W. A. Mozart
Dmitri Shostakovich
Mikkeli Festival
Lake Puula
Hirvensalmi
Martti Talvela
Aarre Merikanto
Oskar Merikanto
Roald Dahl
Maxim Gorky
Daniel Barenboim
Garri Kasparov

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