Leevi Antti Madetoja (17 February 1887, Oulu – 6 October 1947, Helsinki) was a Finnish composer, music critic, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods, generally considered to be one of the most significant Finnish composers to emerge in the wake of Jean Sibelius, under whom he studied privately from 1908 to 1910. The core of Madetoja's oeuvre consists of a set of three symphonies (1916, 1918, and 1926), arguably the finest early-twentieth century additions to the symphonic canon of any Finnish composer after Sibelius. As central to Madetoja's legacy is his opera, The Ostrobothnians (1924), Finland's first notable contribution to the genre—dubbed the country's "national opera" following its successful premiere—and, even today, a stalwart of its operatic reperto