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This composer included "Kopsin Jonas" and "Pirun Polska" in a piano suite based on a collection of folk tunes by Samuel Rinda-Nicola, The Fiddlers. Â He included a trombone solo in the first movement of a piece scored for thirteen brass instruments, a timpani, and a percussion section, his A Requiem in Our Time. Â David Pickett conducted the premiere of this composer's seventh symphony with the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra; that symphony contains a final movement marked pesante and is called (*) Angel of Light. Â A solo for two flutes opens a piece he wrote with movements "The Marsh," "Melancholy," and "Swans Migrating." Â For 10 points, name this composer who used birdsong in his Cantus Arcticus, most notable for hailing from Finland.
This composer included "Kopsin Jonas" and "Pirun Polska" in a piano suite based on a collection of folk tunes by Samuel Rinda-Nicola, The Fiddlers.
Einojuhani Rautavaara