page_title: Armas Otto Väisänen
hierarchical_section_title: Armas Otto Väisänen
caption_attribution_description: English: Armas Otto Väisänen (9 April 1890 - 18 July 1969) an eminent Finnish scholar of folk music, an ethnographer and ethno-musicologist
context_page_description: Armas Otto Aapo Väisänen was an eminent Finnish scholar of folk music, an ethnographer and ethnomusicologist.
  Väisänen was born in Savonranta. In the early twentieth century he documented, in recordings and photographs, traditional Finnish and other Finno-Ugric peoples music and musicians.
  With a scholarship from the Finno-Ugrian Society Väisänen traveled to Russia in 1914 to collect Finno Ugrian folk melodies. He made field trips to Mordovia, Ingria, Veps, Russian Karelia.
  His activities also marked the a new stage in the history of collecting Seto folk songs in Southern Estonia. After the first trip in 1912 he made 6 fieldtrips to Estonia between 1912–1923.
  A. O. Väisänen's dissertation was presented in 1939 on ob-ugrian folk music in German: Untersuchungen über die Ob-ugrischen Melodien: eine vergleichende Studien nebst methodischer Einleitung.
  Between 1926–1957 Väisänen hold the position of the head of the folk music department at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland. He was the professor of musicology at University of Helsinki from 1956–1959. He died in Helsinki, aged 79.
context_section_description: Armas Otto Aapo Väisänen (9 April 1890 – 18 July 1969) was an eminent Finnish scholar of folk music, an ethnographer and ethnomusicologist.  
  Väisänen was born in Savonranta. In the early twentieth century he documented, in recordings and photographs, traditional Finnish and other Finno-Ugric peoples music and musicians. 
  With a scholarship from the Finno-Ugrian Society Väisänen traveled to Russia in 1914 to collect Finno Ugrian folk melodies. He made field trips to Mordovia, Ingria, Veps, Russian Karelia.
  His activities also marked the a new stage in the history of collecting Seto folk songs in Southern Estonia. After the first trip in 1912 he made 6 fieldtrips to Estonia between  1912–1923.
  A. O. Väisänen's dissertation was presented in 1939 on ob-ugrian folk music in German: Untersuchungen über die Ob-ugrischen Melodien: eine vergleichende Studien nebst methodischer Einleitung.
  Between 1926–1957 Väisänen hold the position of the head of the folk music department at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland. He was the professor of musicology at University of Helsinki from 1956–1959. He died in Helsinki, aged 79.
caption: Armas Otto Väisänen in 1913
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