Paavo Johannes Heininen (13 January 1938 – 18 January 2022) was a Finnish composer and pianist. He was born in Helsinki, where he studied at the Sibelius Academy and was taught composition by Aarre Merikanto, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Einar Englund, and Joonas Kokkonen. He continued his studies in Cologne with Bernd Alois Zimmermann; at the Juilliard School of Music in New York with Vincent Persichetti and Eduard Steuermann; and privately in Poland with Witold Lutosławski. He also studied musicology at the University of Helsinki.
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13 January 1938 Järvenpää, Helsinki, Finland
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Died |
18 January 2022 (aged 84)
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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