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Hans Gefors (born 8 December 1952 in Stockholm) is a Swedish composer. He has lived in
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Hans Gefors (born 8 December 1952 in Stockholm) is a Swedish composer. He has lived in Lund
Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...
since the mid-1990s.
Selected works
* ''La boîte chinoise'', for guitar (1975) * ''Poeten och glasmästaren'', chamber opera (1979, libretto:Lars Forssell
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after Baudelaire
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)
* ''Slits'' for orchestra (1981)
* ''Christina'', opera in two acts (1982–86, libretto: Lars Forssell och Hans Gefors)
* ''Whales weep not!'', a cappella chorus (1987, D. H. Lawrence
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)
* ''Twine'' (Music no 3) for orchestra (1988)
* ''En obol'', song-cycle (1989, Lars Forssell)
* ''Der Park'', opera in three acts (1986–91, libretto: Botho Strauss
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och Hans Gefors)
* ''Vargen kommer'', opera in three acts (1994–96, libretto: Kerstin Perski
* ''Lydias sånger'', song-cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1995-96 from the poem of Hjalmar Söderberg
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''Den allvarsamma leken'')
* ''Clara
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'', opera in two acts (1997–98, libretto: Jean-Claude Carrière
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)
* ''Kabaretsånger'' (2001, Jonas Gardell
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)
* ''Njutningen (La Jouissance)'' (Music no 7), song-cycle in five parts (2002)
* ''Skuggspel'', opera in one act (2003–04, libretto: Maria Sundqvist)
* ''Själens rening genom lek och skoj'', car-radio opera (2005–09, libretto: Hans Gefors after Erlend Loe
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)
* ''Umi sono mono'' for choir, electric guitar and percussion (2011, Yukio Mishima
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)
* '' Notorious'', opera in five acts (2012–14, libretto: Kerstin Perski)
* ''Modstand mod renhed'', three songs to poems by Inger Christensen
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(2015–16)
* ''Det store andletet'', five songs to poems of Jon Fosse
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References
*Haglund, Rolf. "Gefors, Hans".Grove Music Online
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