Ernest Pingoud (October 14, 1887, Saint Petersburg – June 1, 1942, Helsinki) was a Finnish composer. His father had Alsatian backround mother was from Finland. He emigrated permanently to Finland 1918 to escape the Russian Revolution. Pingoud studied privately with Alexander Silot and at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with composers Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. In 1906 he went to Germany to study with Hugo Riemann and Max Reger. Pingoud was with Aarre Merikanto, Väinö Raitio ja Uuno Klami among the first Finnish composer to write modernist music. Although Pingoud actively promoted his works at composition concerts, he never really found a niche for himself in Finnish music. His nonconformist, colourful Modernism and cosmopolitan personality simply did not fit the mould that the newly independent nation had conceived for its great public figures. Today, his music is being rediscovered and given the chance of posthumous success. Pingoud committed suicide in Helsinki in 1942. Read more about Ernest Pingoud on the web site of Finnish Music Information Center <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ernest+Pingoud">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.