Composer · Finnish composer
Magnus Lindberg
Biography
Magnus Lindberg is a Finnish composer born in Helsinki in 1958. He studied with Einojuhani Rautavaara and Paavo Heininen at the Sibelius Academy and developed his work through contact with Franco Donatoni, Vinko Globokar, Gérard Grisey and IRCAM.
In 1977 he helped found Korvat auki, a society devoted to contemporary music. His writing explores instrumental energy, sonority and complex musical textures. His catalogue includes orchestral and chamber works alongside keyboard music, represented on Tähe-Lee Liiv’s Finnish piano programme Idyll.