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Euterpe (magazine)

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Euterpe
Categories
  • Music magazine
  • Theatre magazine
  • Literary magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founded1900
Final issue31 December 1905
CountryFinland
Based inHelsinki
LanguageSwedish

Euterpe was a weekly music, theatre and literary magazine which appeared in Helsinki between 1900 and 1905. It was the first Swedish-language music-oriented magazine published in Finland.[1] Its subtitle was Veckotidskrift for musik, teater och skönlitteratur (Swedish: A weekly magazine for music, theatre and literature).[1]

History and profile

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Euterpe was first published in 1900[1] to report the recent developments in European art and philosophy to the readers living in Finland and Sweden.[2] The magazine was headquartered in Helsinki.[3] It was a publication of the Swedish-speaking Finnish intellectuals such as Emil Hasselblatt, Werner Söderhjelm and Jean Sibelius.[2] The magazine had a European orientation, being close to the French thought.[4]

Euterpe came out weekly and featured articles on music, theatre and literature written in Swedish.[2] However, in the first two years the magazine exclusively contained articles on music with a special reference to romanticism and introduced the new generation of Nordic composers, including Carl Nielsen.[1] Later its focus on music decreased, and in its last year the magazine did not cover any music-related article.[1] It was one of rare publications in Finland which included articles on the Dreyfus affair.[4]

The last issue of Euterpe appeared on 31 December 1905.[2] It was succeeded by another Swedish magazine entitled Finsk Musikrevy (Swedish: Finnish Music Review).[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Maija Suhonen (1987). "Music Periodicals in Finland". Fontes Artis Musicae. 34 (2/3): 128–129. JSTOR 23507429.
  2. ^ a b c d Stephen Donovan (2006). "Conrad in Swedish: The First Translation". The Conradian. 31 (2): 116. JSTOR 20873581.
  3. ^ Jani Marjanen; et al. (2023). "Crossing the border: A bird's-eye view on information flows between Sweden and Finland". In Patrik Lundell; et al. (eds.). Information Flows across the Baltic Sea: Towards a Computational Approach to Media History. Lund: Föreningen Mediehistoriskt arkiv. p. 51. doi:10.54292/s6au8axqht. hdl:10138/565367. ISBN 978-91-985802-2-8.
  4. ^ a b Jukka Kortti (2021). "Towards the European transnational public sphere: Finnish liberal intellectuals and their periodicals between nationalism and internationalism under russification". Scandinavian Journal of History. 46 (2): 205. doi:10.1080/03468755.2020.1823467.