"Finnish composers": tradition and time in the Finnish biography of the 1960s
The subject of the study is the biographies of Finnish composers, performers, teachers and music figures Martin Vegelius (1846-1906) and Emil Kauppi (1875-1930), contained in the two-volume edition of Suomen Säveltäjiä. The subject is explored on the basis of historical and biographical methods. In the domestic musicology, the biographies of Vegelius and Kauppi are first studied in terms of the continuity of the biographical genre signs that date back to the time of peripatetics, which determines the novelty of the content and perspective of the study. Also, little-known names of Finnish composers are introduced into scientific circulation. As a result of the research, it is concluded that the genre features of the biography retain stability in time and at the same time allow the biographer to show individuality in the selection of facts, in interpreting events, in the posthumous evaluation and in the style of the text.