Church and city. The early days of Finnish music -- Officers and gentlemen. Composers in the classical period ; The first-generation composers -- Romancing the tone. Music in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland ; Shaping the structures of musical life -- "The mighty spring tide of Finnish music". National romanticism and late romanticism ; The shadow of Sibelius -- "Windows open towards Europe!". Finnish 1920s modernism -- Sheltered by the Kalevala, overshadowed by war. The 1930s and a return to national values ; Continuing the national tradition in instrumental music -- Rising from the ashes of war. From neo-classicism to dodecaphony ; Other composers of the neo-classical period ; The turn to dodecaphony -- Rows, colours and nursery noise. The second wave of modernism in Finnish music ; "Completely unruly nursery noise" -- "That which was old". The transition of the 1960s and free-tonality ; The new wave of choral music ; Some opera composers ; Persistent free-tonality -- In the post-modernist hall of mirrors. Composers caught in the crossfire -- Towards new sound worlds. The new wave of Finnish modernism in the 1980s ; New modernists in the 1970s ; The Ears Open! group ; Contemporaries of the Ears Open! composers : modernism and free twelve-tone music ; Other new composers of the 1980s -- Broadening horizons. The new freedom of the 1990s and the youngest generation of composers ; Modernism and expressionism ; Freedom of style.