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HELSINKI — The prolific Finnish conductor and composer Leif Segerstam, who was one of the most colorful personalities in the Nordic country’s classical music scene, will be remembered in a tribute ...

He mystified his Finnish countrymen with an unstoppable flow of compositions. He was also, one journalist said, “an alarming person to interview.” By Adam Nossiter Leif Segerstam, a Finnish conductor ...

'Leif hated false sentimentality, but he was deeply sentimental. A single note expressed without intention could make him furious, a bird singing in the park would make him cry' Leif Segerstam was not ...

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