Years, compositions

On gaining majority age, sells the family home at Klamila.

Piano Quintet performed at a Music Institute student concert on May 25.

Restaurant pianist at, among others, the Valtionhotelli in Imatra, where he meets Toini Nykänen.

Falls ill in January. Becomes familiar with the provocative “scandalous hit” of Parisian musical life. Returns to Helsinki in May 1925. Later says of his time in Paris: “The Russian Modernists, such as Prokofiev and Stravinsky, and the new Spanish music really shook me.” Develops a life-long admiration for Ravel.

Leaving certificate from the Helsinki Music Institute dated November 1, 1925.

In December, begins as a conscript in the Karelian Guards Regiment in Viipuri.

Habanera played at a concert by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Toivo Haapanen on January 22, the first orchestral work by Klami to be performed in public.

Highly-acclaimed, even sensational first concert of his compositions held at the Helsinki University Hall on September 27. Programme: Habanera, Une nuit à Montmartre, Three Chinese Songs and Karelian Rhapsody. Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leo Funtek, soloists Ernst Linko and Anna Hagelstam. Heikki Klemetti writes in Uusi Suomi: “All in all, one is relieved of all doubts when listening to Mr Klami; it is obvious that he knows what he is doing and is able to achieve his wishes. And that he has what it takes, to use a customary phrase.”

The Kordelin Foundation awards him a grant of 10,000 marks.

In the autumn, departs on a 6-month study trip to Vienna, where he possibly receives some instruction in composition from Hans Gál. Probably hears Bartók and Ravel performing some of their works; the latter’s repertoire includes the Bolero.

Grant of 10,000 marks from the Kordelin Foundation.

Returns to Finland in the spring and settles in Helsinki. Writes in Iltalehti: “Paris is the promised land of new music, Vienna of the old.”

Teaches the piano at the Folk Conservatory 1929–1932.

Teaches at the Folk Conservatory 1930–1932.

Music critic on Iltalehti and Ajan Sana 1930.