Armas Otto Aapo Väisänen | |
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Born | |
Died | 18 July 1969 | (aged 79)
Nationality | Finnish |
Other names | A. O. Väisänen |
Occupation | scholar |
Known for | folk music |
Armas Otto Aapo Väisänen (9 April 1890 – 18 July 1969) [1] was an eminent Finnish scholar of folk music, an ethnographer and ethnomusicologist. [2]
Väisänen was born in Savonranta. In the early twentieth century he documented, in recordings and photographs, traditional Finnish and Finno-Ugric music and musicians. [3] With a scholarship from the Finno-Ugrian Society Väisänen traveled to Russia in 1914 to collect Finno-Ugric folk melodies. [4] He made field trips to Mordovia, Ingria, Veps, Russian Karelia. [1] His activities also marked the a new stage in the history of collecting Seto folk songs in Southern Estonia. [5] After the first trip in 1912 he made 6 fieldtrips to Estonia between 1912 and 1923. [1]
A. O. Väisänen's dissertation was presented in 1939 on Ob-Ugrian folk music in German: Untersuchungen über die Ob-ugrischen Melodien: eine vergleichende Studien nebst methodischer Einleitung. [1]
Between 1926 and 1957 Väisänen hold the position of the head of the folk music department at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland. [1] He was the professor of musicology at University of Helsinki from 1956 to 1959. He died in Helsinki, aged 79.
Armas Otto Aapo Väisänen | |
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Born | |
Died | 18 July 1969 | (aged 79)
Nationality | Finnish |
Other names | A. O. Väisänen |
Occupation | scholar |
Known for | folk music |
Armas Otto Aapo Väisänen (9 April 1890 – 18 July 1969) [1] was an eminent Finnish scholar of folk music, an ethnographer and ethnomusicologist. [2]
Väisänen was born in Savonranta. In the early twentieth century he documented, in recordings and photographs, traditional Finnish and Finno-Ugric music and musicians. [3] With a scholarship from the Finno-Ugrian Society Väisänen traveled to Russia in 1914 to collect Finno-Ugric folk melodies. [4] He made field trips to Mordovia, Ingria, Veps, Russian Karelia. [1] His activities also marked the a new stage in the history of collecting Seto folk songs in Southern Estonia. [5] After the first trip in 1912 he made 6 fieldtrips to Estonia between 1912 and 1923. [1]
A. O. Väisänen's dissertation was presented in 1939 on Ob-Ugrian folk music in German: Untersuchungen über die Ob-ugrischen Melodien: eine vergleichende Studien nebst methodischer Einleitung. [1]
Between 1926 and 1957 Väisänen hold the position of the head of the folk music department at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland. [1] He was the professor of musicology at University of Helsinki from 1956 to 1959. He died in Helsinki, aged 79.