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Oskar Merikanto was a Finnish composer, music critic, pianist, and organist. As a composer, Merikanto was primarily a miniaturist, and his extensive œuvre includes songs and piano pieces. Of the latter, he is best remembered for: Summer Evening Waltz, Romance, Summer Evening Idyll, Valse lente, and Idyll. Merikanto also wrote three operas: The Maiden of the North, which retains a degree of historical significance as the first opera composed to a Finnish libretto; The Death of Elina; and Regina von Emmeritz. However, Merikanto's operas have entered neither the domestic nor the international repertoires. As a music critic, Merikanto was associated with the Finnish-language, liberal, nationalist newspaper Päivälehti. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_M...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
