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): Fern Michaels • Hugh Hefner • James Craggs the Younger • Jean-Paul Belmondo • Juliet Cuthbert • Mary Jackson (engineer) • Nadey Hakim • Paolo Tosti • Terry Knight • Virginia Gibson

Born in the same month (April 1935): Bhama Srinivasan • Costas Ferris • Dominique Venner • Erich von Däniken • Frank Schepke • Geoff Braybrooke • Paul Chambers • Pedro Ramos • Peter Grant (music manager) • Reinier Kreijermaat • Richard Berry (musician) • Ron Morris (pole vaulter) • Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton • Thomas Kean • Trevor Griffiths