This week, he has delivered an unexpected posthumous greeting. Though he entertained some modernist techniques, at core his style was seductively, if idiosyncratically, Romantic. Rautavaara’s music, too, conjured the past. His death severed a link to the past: Rautavaara had been a protégé of Sibelius, Finland’s master composer, and one of the pallbearers at his funeral in 1957. ![]() When the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara died in 2016, at 87, a voice of rare lyricism in contemporary music fell silent.
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