Ann-Elise Hannikainen

Ann-Elise Hannikainen (14 January 1946 – 19 November 2012) was a Finnish composer.[1] She was born in Hanko, Finland, the daughter of Heikki and Marianne Hannikainen. She studied music in Finland at the Sibelius Academy with Einar Englund for composition and Tapani Valsta for piano. In 1972 she moved to Spain, where she studied composition with Ernesto Halffter Escriche at the Academia Moderne de Musica.[2][3]

Hannikainen became Halffter's companion during his later life. After his death she moved back to Finland in 1989, and died in Helsinki in 2012.[1]

Selected works

Hannikainen composed mainly instrumental works. Selected compositions include:

References

  1. 1 2 Kuinka naissäveltäjä unohdetaan – tapaus Ann-Elise Hannikainen. YLE, 13 November 2015. (Finnish)
    Virtanen, Markus: Kuka on Ann-Elise Hannikainen? 2015. (Finnish)
  2. Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900.
  3. Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 4 October 2010.


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