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    Martin Wegelius (10 November 1846 – 22 March 1906) was a Finnish composer and musicologist, primarily remembered as the founder, in 1882, of the Helsinki...
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    with his teacher, Martin Wegelius on the incidental music for a "dramatic runic sorcery" titled The Watersprite (Näcken); Wegelius composed Nos. 1 and...
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    The Wegelius family consists of many famous individual political figures, bankers, engineers, musicians and sportsmen. The family name Wegelius derives...
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    his teachers was its founder, Martin Wegelius, who did much to support the development of education in Finland. Wegelius gave the self-taught Sibelius...
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    Sibelius was introduced to the music of Liszt through his teacher Martin Wegelius, and the influence of Liszt's symphonic poems is seen in Sibelius'...
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    player he is sometimes painted as. He was the first violinist hired by Martin Wegelius for the Helsinki Institute, and in 1910 he participated in the premiere...
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    database management system Rudolf Walden, industrialist and general Martin Wegelius, composer, musicologist, and founder of the Sibelius Academy Georg...
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    at the Helsinki Music Institute under the direction of his teacher, Martin Wegelius. The A minor Quartet received its premiere in Helsinki on 29 May 1889...
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    held every five years in Helsinki. The academy was founded in 1882 by Martin Wegelius as Helsingfors musikinstitut ("Helsinki Music Institute") and renamed...
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    Helsinki Music Institute, the star pupil of the institute's director, Martin Wegelius. That summer, the Sibelius family vacationed for the second straight...
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