Aulis Sallinen

Aulis Heikki Sallinen is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. His music has been variously described as "remorselessly harsh", a "beautifully crafted amalgam of several 20th-century styles", and "neo-romantic". Sallinen studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen. He has had works commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, and has also written seven operas, eight symphonies, concertos for violin, cello, flute, horn, and English horn, as well as several chamber works. He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1978 for his opera Ratsumies.

9 April 1935

Born on the same birth date (9 April 1935): Avery Schreiber

Born on the same birth day (9 April): Alexandra Hunt • Curly Lambeau • Henrik Rysensteen • Iain Duncan Smith • Jean-Marie Balestre • Jean-Paul Belmondo • Paolo Tosti • Paula Nenette Pepin • Óscar Razo

Born in the same month (April 1935): Albert Bustamante • Avery Schreiber • Costas Ferris • Dominique Venner • Geoff Braybrooke • Giovanni Cianfriglia • Larry McDonald • Oscar Zeta Acosta • Patrick Garland • Paul Chambers • Reinier Kreijermaat • Theo Angelopoulos • Thomas Kean • Trevor Griffiths