Selim Palmgren

Selim Gustaf Adolf Palmgren (16 February 1878 – 13 December 1951[1]) was a Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor.

He conducted choral and orchestral societies in his own country and made several very successful concert tours as a pianist in the principal cities of Finland and Scandinavia, appearing also as a visiting conductor.

In 1921, he went to the United States, where he taught composition at the Eastman School of Music, later returning to Finland, where he died in Helsinki, aged 73.

Palmgren was married to the opera singer Maikki Järnefelt from 1910 to her death in 1929.

[2] An incomplete works list (elaborated by Joel Valkila): According to a biography on a June 1926 Gramophone article, Palmgren had written two operas at that time, one produced (Daniel Hjort) and another one unproduced.