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Karl Teodor Flodin (10 July 1858, Vaasa – 29 November 1925, Helsinki) was a Finnish music critic, newspaper editor, author, composer, and pianist.

As a journalist based in Helsinki, Flodin wrote for the Swedish-language press: primarily Nya Pressen and, after the Imperial Russian censor shuttered the newspaper in 1900, its various short-lived successors. Flodin was the city's most influential critic from the mid-1880s to the early-1900s, and with his verbose, erudite, and musically-conservative reviews (signed ""), he wielded appreciable power over the then-developing Finnish music scene, shaping both the opinions of the public and the decisions of domestic composers. For example, two 1897 reviews by Flodin—his 21 October praise for Ernst Mielck's Symphony in F minor and his 2 November excoriation of Jean Sibelius's "positively pathological" The Lemminkäinen Suite—may have prodded Sibelius to tackle "the majestic edifice of the symphony", rather than to 'squander' his talent "turn[ing] out rhapsodies, symphonic poems, and suites".

Flodin gave up composing early in his career in order to focus on his music criticism, perhaps recognizing that more gifted Finnish composers—especially Sibelius—were emerging and that he could be of greater service promoting an understanding of their music. His, which consists of about 80 piano pieces, 30 songs, 20 choral works, several cantatas, and incidental music, is largely insignificant and remains in manuscript.

Life
He was born on 10 July 1858 in Vaasa.

Starting in 1877, Flodin attended the Imperial Alexander's University of Finland (now the University of Helsinki), where he studied composition, piano, and music theory under the Finnish composer Richard Faltin, who held one of the most prestigious professorships in Finland. After obtaining his degree a bachelors in 1883 and a masters in 1886, he moved to Imperial Germany; from 1890 to 1892, was a post-graduate student at the prestigious Leipzig Conservatory, at which he studied with the German composers Salomon Jadassohn and Karl Piutti.

In 1900, Flodin married the Finnish operatic soprano Adée Leander-Flodin.

In 1908, Flodin and his wife, the Finnish soprano Adée Leander-Flodin, moved to Buenos Aires. There he accompanied Leander-Flodin on the piano in concert and worked as a music critic for the German-language newspaper Deutsche La Plata Zeitung. He also wrote a biography of the Finnish composer and founder of the Helsinki Music Institute (now the Sibelius Academy), Martin Wegelius; this was a commission by the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, which published the book in 1922. In 1921, the flodins left Argentina and resettled in Helsinki, where Flodin died four years later of a terminal illness. His biography of Richard Faltin was published posthumously (written with and completed by Otto Ehrström) in 1934.

Literary works

 * Finnish Musicians and Other Essays on Music (Finska musiker och andra uppsatser i musik). Söderström, 1900.
 * Rydberg's Poems in Music (Om musiken till Runeberg's dikter). Helsinki: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 1904.
 * Albert Edelfelt: A Popular Memoir (Albert Edelfelt: En folkelig minneskrift). Helsinki: Svenska Folkskolans Vänner, 1905.
 * Martin Wegelius: A Life (Martin Wegelius: Levnadsteckning). Helsinki: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 1922.
 * Memories of Music and Travel (Musikliv och reseminnen). Helsinki: Söderström & Co, 1931.
 * Richard Faltin and His Times (Richard Faltin och hans samtid). Helsinki: Schildt, 1934.

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Helsingfors-Posten was a Swedish-language newspaper published in Helsinki between 1902 and 1905.[1]

The newspaper was founded to fill the gap left in the pro-Swedish newspaper field when the Nya Pressen and Aftonposten newspapers were closed in 1900 and Dagligt Allehanda in 1901. The editor in charge of the newspaper was Karl Flodin. The newspaper announced that it was advocating for the rights of the Swedish-speaking part of the population, but also supported cooperation with the Finnish-speaking constitutionalists. [1]

In 1905, Helsingfors-Posten got a competitor when Nya Pressen started to be published again, and at the beginning of 1906 it was decided to merge the paper with Nya Pressen. [1]

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Nya Pressen was a Swedish-language newspaper published in Helsinki between 1906 and 1914.

After the abolition of the first Nya Pressen and Aftonposten in 1900, the Swedish party was left without a supporter from Helsinki. In their place, Dagligt Allehanda was founded, which was also closed in September 1901. In 1902, a publication license was obtained for the more moderate Helsingfors-Posten, which at the beginning of 1906 was decided to merge with the newly founded Nya Pressen.[1]

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Two years later, Sibelius premiered the Symphony No. 1 in E minor, thereby beginning an artistic path that would result in his becoming one of the most important symphonists of the twentieth century.