Arre Merikanto

Arre Merikanto was a Finnish composer born on July 29, 1893. He is known for his contributions to 12-tone music, a compositional technique that uses a series of all twelve notes in the chromatic scale in a particular order. Merikanto was active in the early to mid-20th century, a period of significant experimentation and development in classical music. His work contributed to the modernist movement in Finnish music, and he is recognized as an important figure in the country's musical history.