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Eero Tarasti went to school at Helsinki Normal Lyceum, the classical line, where he became baccalaureat in 1967 (with six laudaturs): Then he studied at the University of Helsinki

His first chair was at Arts Education, University of Jyväskylä (Middle Finland) 1979–83; then he served there one year as professor of Musicology, 1983–84 and was nominated as Professor of Musicology at the University of Helsinki, 1984–2016. He continues

"Sémiotique et musicologie - Eero Tarasti", a film about the life and work of Eero Tarasti, in French and English (4 hours), produced by Maison des

• Myth and Music. A Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in Music, especially that of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky 1979 (Berlin: Mouton; in Finnish 1994; in French Mythe et musique,

He was member of the Executive Committee of the IASS/AIS (International Association for Semiotic Studies) in 1979–2000; Member of the Academia Europaea since 1987; Member of the Academy of Informatization, Moscow since 1994; Member of the

Eero Tarasti has received several international honours as follows:
• Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Indiana University,

• Eero Tarasti in 375 humanists. 28 April 2015. University of Helsinki.
• Tarasti, Eero 2017. The semiotics of A. J. Greimas: A European intellectual heritage seen from the inside and the outside