The Professor
Armas Launis had a PhD (1911) and was full Professor at the University of Helsinki where he taught musical analysis and composition. He completed his studies in Berlin with Wilhelm Klatte and in Weimar with Waldemar von Baussenern. Deeply concerned with the opening of musical education for everyone, he founded the first popular conservatories in Finland which still exist and that he directed until 1930.
As early as 1920, he received a life pension from the Finnish State with the permission to live abroad.
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