Question

A composer from this country included nested 22-and 14-tuplets in the left hand in his first piano concerto. Another composer from this country dedicated his Cello (15[1])Concerto to Yo-Yo Ma, who premiered it in 2017. Gustavo Dudamel succeeded that composer from this country as conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. A composer (15[1])from this country instructed performers to “Think of autumn and of (15[1]) Tchaikovsky” and recorded birdsong for his orchestral piece (*) Cantus Arcticus. A composer from this country included a swan call-inspired horn theme in his fifth symphony, wrote a one-movement seventh symphony, and premiered a piece named (10[1])for this country as A Scandinavian Choral March to evade Russian censorship. Einojuhani Rautavaara [AY-no-yu-ha-ni ROW-ta-va-ra] was from, for 10 points, what country home to Jean Sibelius? ■END■

ANSWER: Finland [or Suomi] (The first sentence refers to Rautavaara’s Piano Concerto no. 1. The second and third sentences refer to Esa-Pekka Salonen.)
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