Leif Segerstam

Finnish conductor and composer

Leif Selim Segerstam ( LAYF, 2 March 1944 – 9 October 2024) was a Finnish music composer, conductor, violinist, violist, and pianist. He is especially best known for writing over 300 symphonies, along with other works. He held many important positions in Finnish music industry both in Finland and around the world.

From 1963 until his death in 2024, Segerstam conducted a variety of orchestras in Finland, Europe, North America, and Australia and New Zealand. He was conductor at Finnish National Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, and Deutsche Oper Berlin, and was a chief conductor of ORF Symphony Orchestra, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Danish National Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, and Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. He is widely known through his recordings, including complete symphonies of Blomdahl, Brahms, Mahler, Nielsen, and Sibelius, as well as many works by contemporary composers. He is remembered for his contributions to the Finnish music scene, and his vibrant personality.

He taught as a professor of orchestra conducting at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

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Works

A Midnightsunbeamgreeting
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Concerto serioso per violino ed orchestra
Concerto serioso per violino ed orchestra: I. Adagio espressivo: Tempo agitato
Concerto serioso per violino ed orchestra: II. Adagio misterioso e leggiero con fantasia: Doppio movimento
Divertimento
Divertimento: I. Moderato
Divertimento: II. Adagio
Divertimento: III. Allegro moderato
Epitaph no. 6, VI.
Flowerbouquette no. 43E
Impressions of Nordic Nature no. 4 "Wonderings While Wandering..."
Monumental Thoughts
Nocturne
Nostalgic Thoughts in KAAMOStime...
Patria
Piano Concerto no. 3 “So It Feels”
Rituals in La
Skizzen aus Pandora
Streamings in the Soul
String Quartet no. 6
String Quartet no. 6: I. Free-pulsatively
String Quartet no. 6: II. Free-pulsatively
String Quartet no. 6: III. Con moto
String Quartet no. 6: IV. Adagissimo con spirito di Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 11 for Piano, Percussion and Strings
Symphony no. 12 "After the Flood"
Symphony no. 13
Symphony no. 14 “Moments of Peace III”
Symphony no. 16 ''Thoughts at the Border''
Symphony no. 162 "Doubling the Number for Bergen!"
Symphony no. 17
Symphony no. 18 "Unelma - A Dream"
Symphony no. 181 "Names Itself When Played" = (Raising the Number with 100 for Bergen)
Symphony no. 21 "September, Visions at Korpijärvi"
Symphony no. 23 "Afterthoughts Questioning Questionings"
Symphony no. 288 “Letting the FLOW go on”
Symphony no. 289 “When a Cat Visited”
Symphony no. 294 “Songs of a UNICORN heralding…”
Symphony no. 295 “ulFSöDErBlom in Memoriam…”
Symphony no. 81 "After Eighty..."
Symphony no. 9
Three Moments of Parting
Three Moments of Parting: I. The Untold Want
Three Moments of Parting: II. Life and Death
Three Moments of Parting: III. Then Last of All
Trumpet Concerto no. 2 "So It Feels..."