Years, compositions
1900
1900
Born at Virolahti on September 20, the first child of seaman Anton Klami and shop assistant Amalia (née Korpela), a farmer’s daughter.
Klami compiled many lists of his works, but the dates do not always agree. The dates of many of the compositions in the following list are uncertain. Lost works are given in square brackets. The dates are to some extent based on research conducted by Kalevi Aho in 2000. For the extensive list made by him see link.
1904
1904
Death of little sister Vieno and father, Anton Klami, of tuberculosis.
1908
1908
1908–1909 Pupil at the Virolahti Parish ambulant school.
1911
1911
1911–1915 Pupil at Koukki Elementary School, Klamila. Announces his intention to be a composer when in the third grade (probably aged 13).
1915
1915
Elementary School leaving certificate.
Move to Helsinki. Studies at the Helsinki Music Institute 1915–1917.
1916
1916
Mother, Amalia Korpela, dies in June.
Begins working as a café and cinema pianist in the 1920s.
1918
1918
In the spring, fights in the ranks of the ‘Whites’ in the Finnish Civil War. Autumn spent in Kuokkala and Viipuri.
1919
1919
In the spring, fights as a volunteer in the Estonian Civil War. Among the forces liberating the town of Marienburg from the ‘Reds’.
1920
1920
Studies (now also composition with Erkki Melartin) at the Helsinki Music Institute from the autumn semester 1920 to the end of the spring semester 1921.
Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Piano (unfinished), Sonata for Viola and Piano in B Flat Minor.
