Jack Christer Randolph [Jack] Mattsson (12/12/1954 - 11/11/2007), a Finnish composer, born in the Åland Islands.
Mattsson: "I took my first musical impulses from The Beatles in 1963, and I still have a close relationship to their music. My interest in Bach and many other great masters, including Palestrina, Lasso and a succession of composers until the masters of the 20th century, was born at approximately the same time. I recognise much of my own internal sound ideal and identity in the French masters Debussy and Ravel. Einar Englund, my teacher in counterpoint, harmony and later privately in composition, played an encouraging part in my development towards the melodic style of composition that I represent. And often, I find the poetic sincerity of Robert Schumann absolutely inimitable in its fragile beauty and spontaneous melodic seductiveness."