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Conductor and composer Leif Segerstam, one of classical music\u2019s most colourful yet supremely talented personalities, has died at the age of 80.<\/p>
For those with a love of statistics, the flamboyantly bearded Finn will be forever celebrated as the composer of a world-record number of symphonies<\/a><\/strong>: an astonishing 371 in total. Though many have yet to be performed, a number of them \u2013 particularly the earlier ones and a clutch in the late 200s \u2013 have been recorded for the BIS label, not least his hypnotic and eerily unsettling No. 16 \u2018Thoughts at the Border\u2019 in 1990. On top of these, he also found time to compose shorter orchestral works, concertos<\/a><\/strong> and chamber music<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>