My great grandfather was a semi-famous musician in his day. He was the first chair French horn player in the Helsinki Orchestra when he was only 14. He once met Tsar Nicholas II and was offered a Russian name by the Tsar but turned him down!
One of my proudest possesions is a photo of him with Jean Sibelius taken at Jaarvanpaa. I also have a couple of letters (in Finnish) from Sibelius that were written to my great-grandfather. I guess they had a correspondence that lasted until my GG died in 1939.
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