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Peterson-Berger
Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger ( 27 February 1867, Ullånger — 3 December 1942, Östersund) was a Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Grieg, August Söderman and Wagner as well as Swedish folk idiom.Percy G. ''Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, An Introduction''. (Stockholm, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger Society) 1982. The composer Peterson-Berger studied at the Stockholm Conservatory from 1886–89 and then in Dresden for a year. He is best known for three albums of national romantic piano pieces entitled ''Frösöblomster I, II and III'' (''Flowers of Frösö''), which includes the often performed ''Vid Frösö kyrka'' (''At Frösö Church'') and ''Sommarsång'' (''Summer Song''). The sets, which were composed over a period of 18 years (1896 - 1914) and brought together afterwards as a collection have gained a reputation of representing a quintessential "Swedishness" in the romantic, nationalistic vein of their time. The most famous of the pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnljot
''Arnljot'' is an opera by the Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. Written in 1906, it premiered April 13, 1910, and was revised in 1956. The origin to ''Arnljot'' is a melody that Wilhelm Peterson-Berger created when he first visited Jämtland in 1898. When he journeyed over Storsjön he was inspired by the nearby mountains, Oviksfjällen. The opera consists of three parts and the historical foundation of the opera is the character ''Arnljot Gelline'' that is mentioned in Snorri Sturluson saga about '' Olav Haraldsson (den Helige, Rex perpetuus Norvegiae)'' and the writings on Frösöstenen, the rune stone that is placed on Frösön. Out of these components, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger wrote his drama. Performance history The original performance of ''Arnljot'' as an opera was put on on April 13, 1910, at the Royal Theater in Stockholm. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnljot Opera
''Arnljot'' is an opera by the Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. Written in 1906, it premiered April 13, 1910, and was revised in 1956. The origin to ''Arnljot'' is a melody that Wilhelm Peterson-Berger created when he first visited Jämtland in 1898. When he journeyed over Storsjön he was inspired by the nearby mountains, Oviksfjällen. The opera consists of three parts and the historical foundation of the opera is the character ''Arnljot Gelline'' that is mentioned in Snorri Sturluson saga about '' Olav Haraldsson (den Helige, Rex perpetuus Norvegiae)'' and the writings on Frösöstenen, the rune stone that is placed on Frösön. Out of these components, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger wrote his drama. Performance history The original performance of ''Arnljot'' as an opera was put on on April 13, 1910, at the Royal Theater in Stockholm. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ran (opera)
''Ran'' is a 1903 Swedish-language opera in three acts by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. Titled after the sea goddess Ran, the subject and Wagnerian influence precedes his better known opera on Nordic legend ''Arnljot ''Arnljot'' is an opera by the Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. Written in 1906, it premiered April 13, 1910, and was revised in 1956. The origin to ''Arnljot'' is a melody that Wilhelm Peterson-Berger created when he first visited Jä ...''. Successful in its day, the piano reduction of "Danslek" (playful dance) is the only excerpt remembered today.John H. Yoell ''The Nordic Sound: Explorations Into the Music of Denmark, ... '' 1974 p 182 DANSLEK FROM “ RAN ” ( Playful Dance from “ Ran ” ) ( 1900 ) A trite but tuneful tidbit from one of Peterson - Berger ' s ... Because of a heroic theme and frequent revivals , Arnljot leads all others in the claim for Sweden ' s “ national opera ." References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ran (opera) Swedish-language operas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frösön
Frösön (, ; "Frey's island"), (Old no, Frøys øy) is the largest island in the lake Storsjön, located west of the city Östersund in Jämtland, Sweden. During most of recorded history Frösön was the regional centre of Jämtland, and it is the location of the Frösö Runestone, the northernmost in the world. The Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger had a summer house (and from 1930 a permanent home) on the island. In 1896 Peterson-Berger composed a set of piano pieces entitled ''Frösöblomster'' (''Flowers of Frösön''), and his opera ''Arnljot'' from 1910 is partly based on the runic inscriptions on Frösö Runestone. History Frösön is named after the Norse god Freyr. It is the location of the "Frösö Runestone", the northernmost raised runestone in the world, dating from 1030-1050 AD. Frösön was a separate ''köping'' until 1974 but was merged with Östersund at that time. Hospital From 1915 to 1988, Frösön was the location of , a state-owned psychiatric hospi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doomsday Prophets
''The Doomsday Prophets'' (Swedish: ''Domedagsprofeterna'') is an opera by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, to his own Swedish libretto, composed from 1912–17. It was first performed at the Royal Opera, Stockholm on 21 February 1919. Background Based on a story which the composer found in the journal ''Den svenska Mercurius'' (1759), the opera features several historical characters (Bure, Skytte, Queen Kristina), and is set in the university city of Uppsala just before the end of the Thirty Years’ War in which Sweden became a major European power. The war increased people's worries about the end of the world and two academics claim to have calculated when Doomsday will take place. The opera's composition was completed during the First World War.The first performance was conducted by Armas Järnefelt. Roles *Captain Lennart Sporre *Elin, daughter of Klas Mugg *Lars Bryngelsson, student, sweetheart of Elin *Klas Mugg, Elin's father *Östen, brother of Lars * Johan Bure, profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Söderman
(Johan) August Söderman (17 July 1832 in Stockholm – 10 February 1876 in Stockholm) has traditionally been seen as the pre-eminent Swedish composer of the Romantic generation, known especially for his lieder and choral works, based on folk material, and for his theatre music, such as the incidental music to Ludvig Josephson's ''Marsk Stigs döttrar'' ("Marshal Stig's Daughter"), 1866, or his ''Svenskt festspel'' ("Swedish Festival Music"). The son of a musical father and a pupil of the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm, he studied piano, but mastered the oboe and violin as well. In 1856–57 he studied counterpoint at the Leipzig Conservatory with Ernst Richter; there, in a musical culture that bore the imprint of Mendelssohn, he became familiar with the music of Robert Schumann and also with that of Richard Wagner. On his return to Stockholm he worked as a theatre conductor, and at the Royal Swedish Opera as choirmaster and eventually assistant conductor. He wrote seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ran (Goddess)
Ran, RaN and ran may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Ran'' (film), a 1985 film directed by Akira Kurosawa * "Ran" (song), a 2013 Japanese song by Luna Sea * ''Ran Online'', a 2004 MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) *''Ran'', a 1903 Swedish opera on the Nordic myth by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger People * Ran (surname), a Chinese surname * Ran (given name) * Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian children's book author born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov (1886–1958) * RaN, Nissim of Gerona (1320–1376), Rabbi Nissim ben Reuven (RaN, the Hebrew acronym of his name, ר"ן) Fictional or mythological characters * Rán, a goddess of the sea in Norse mythology * Ran (Shugo Chara!), in the manga series ''Shugo Chara!'' * Ran (Urusei Yatsura), in the manga series ''Urusei Yatsura'' * Ran, from the sprite webcomic '' Bob and George'' * Ran Aresu, from '' Inazuma Eleven'' * Ran Kotobuki, in the manga series ''Gals!'' * Ran Kuroki, a character from ''Kamen Rider Fourze'' * Ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instrumentation (music)
In music, instrumentation is the particular combination of musical instruments employed in a composition, and the properties of those instruments individually. Instrumentation is sometimes used as a synonym for orchestration. This juxtaposition of the two terms was first made in 1843 by Hector Berlioz in his ''Grand traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes'', and various attempts have since been made to differentiate them. Instrumentation is a more general term referring to an orchestrator's, composer's or arranger's selection of instruments in varying combinations, or even a choice made by the performers for a particular performance, as opposed to the narrower sense of orchestration, which is the act of scoring for orchestra a work originally written for a solo instrument or smaller group of instruments. Instrumental properties Writing for any instrument requires a composer or arranger to know the instrument's properties, such as: * the instrument's particular timbre, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lermontov
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲɛrməntəf; – ) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only through his poetry, but also through his prose, which founded the tradition of the Russian psychological novel. Biography Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was born in Moscow into the respectable noble family of Lermontov, and he grew up in the village of Tarkhany (now Lermontovo in Penza Oblast). His paternal family descended from the Scottish family of Learmonth, and can be traced to Yuri (George) Learmonth, a Scottish officer in the Polish–Lithuanian service who settled in Russia in the middle of the 17th century. He had been captur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Nyblom
Helena Nyblom (7 December 1843 – 9 October 1926) was a Danish-Swedish children's story author. She is perhaps most remembered for ''The Swan Suit.'' at www.bpib.com She died in Stockholm. Biography Helena was born in , , daughter to the Danish painter . Her brother was the painter |
Cantata
A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of the term changed over time, from the simple single-voice madrigal of the early 17th century, to the multi-voice "cantata da camera" and the "cantata da chiesa" of the later part of that century, from the more substantial dramatic forms of the 18th century to the usually sacred-texted 19th-century cantata, which was effectively a type of short oratorio. Cantatas for use in the liturgy of church services are called church cantata or sacred cantata; other cantatas can be indicated as secular cantatas. Several cantatas were, and still are, written for special occasions, such as Christmas cantatas. Christoph Graupner, Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach composed cycles of church cantatas for the occasions of the liturgical year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polska (dance)
The polska (Swedish plural ''polskor'') is a family of music and dance forms shared by the Nordic countries: called ''polsk'' in Denmark, polka or polska in Estonia, ''polska'' in Sweden and Finland, and by several different names in Norway. Norwegian variants include , and . The polska is almost always seen as a partner dance in , although variants in time, as well as in compound meters also exist. Evolution As suggested by the name, the roots of the polska are traced back to the influence of the Polish court throughout the northern countries during the early 17th century. (''Polska'' also happens to be homonymous with the Swedish word for the Polish language.) , Polska is also the Polish word for Poland. This view is sometimes challenged by those who see earlier evidence of the musical tradition in Nordic ''visor'' or songs, that may have become grafted onto the newer foreign influences when the court dances began to filter out into the middle class and rural communities. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
