Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (died 1947)

Leevi Madetoja

Finnish composer (1887–1947)

Leevi Antti Madetoja was a Finnish composer, music critic, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as one of the most significant Finnish contemporaries of Jean Sibelius, under whom he studied privately from 1908 to 1910.