Väinö Raitio's lyrics & chords

Väinö Raitio (April 15, 1891 – September 10, 1945) was part of the small group of composers who appeared in the Finnish art music scene in the 1920s with a new cosmopolitan music style, much different from the dominating conservative National Romanticism. Raitio's career as a composer reached its peak in the 1920s when eight large symphonic poems appeared from his pen. Influenced by Alexander Scriabin, his style was too modern for the Nordic music circles, and his orchestral work Joutsenet (The Swans, Les Cygnes) of 1919 remained as the so...read more