List of Famous people with last name Palmgren

Selim Palmgren

Selim Gustaf Adolf Palmgren

First Name Selim

Last Name Palmgren

Born on February 16, 1878

Died on December 13, 1951 (aged 73)

Born in Finland, Satakunta

Selim Gustaf Adolf Palmgren was a Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor. Palmgren was born in Pori, Finland, February 16, 1878. He studied at the Conservatory in Helsinki from 1895 to 1899, then continued his piano studies in Berlin with Ansorge, Berger and Busoni. 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.

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