Background
Sinisalo, Gel'mer-Rainer was born on June 14, 1920 in Zlatoust in Cheliabinskaia Oblast’.
Sinisalo, Gel'mer-Rainer was born on June 14, 1920 in Zlatoust in Cheliabinskaia Oblast’.
Trained at the Moscow Conservatory under V. Voloshinov. Composed music for the first Karelian ballet Sampo, based on the Finnish epic Kalevala, produced at the Petrozavodskii Theatre of Musical Drama, 1959. Other ballets, 1963-1974.
State Prize of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1974.