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Toivo Kuula
Small Folksong Suite for String Quartet--First Edition
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918) was born in the Finnish town of Vaasa, then part of the Russian empire, at that time known as the Grand Duchy of Finland. As a boy, he studied the violin and took singing lessons. Subsequently, he studied composition with Martin Wegelius Sibelius' first teacher and then later Marco Enrico Bossi in Italy, then Hans Sitt at the Leipzig Conservatory and Marcel Labey in Paris. He is primarily known for his songs and choral works. He is said to have collected hundred of folksongs from southern Ostrobothnia. The manuscript is one of many found in exercise books kept at Helsinki University. Kuula had apparently planned to made a suite for string quartet from several of the folksongs he had collected but we only found one from which we have made a short work.
Parts: $11.95
Parts & Score: $15.95
