Laci Boldemann (24 April 1921 – 18 August 1969) was a

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Life and career

Boldemann was born in

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. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1937 to 1939, both conducting (with

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) and piano, where he continued his studies in Stockholm at the outbreak of war in 1939 with

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.Percy G. Leading Swedish Composers of the 20th Century. In: ''Swedish music – past and present'', special edition of Musikrevy. STIM & Swedish Institute for Cultural Relations Abroad, Stockholm, 1966. In 1941 his citizenship forced Boldemann to join the German army and fight in the Soviet Union, Poland and Italy; he was later imprisoned in the US and returned to Sweden via France and Germany. After returning to Sweden in 1947, he joined the Swedish Composers’ Society and served as Secretary and Treasurer (1963—1969). He was also on the board of the Swedish Performing Rights Society and the Joint Council of Artists and Writers. He died in

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. The stimulation of literature played an important part in Boldemann's work. Music drama, art songs and fun songs for children, as well as vocal works with an orchestral accompaniment, were genres in which he composed. His instrumental work is characterised by both lyrical freshness and percussive propulsion, in a traditional rather than avant garde style.

Compositions

Orchestral music

*Symphony (1959–61) *La Danza, Symphonic overture (1949) *Sinfonietta for strings (1954)

Concert works

*Piano Concerto (1956) *Violin Concerto (1959)

Chamber music

*String Quartet (1957)

Instrumental

*Little suite on nursery rhymes for piano (1961) *''Small ironic pieces'' for piano op. 19 (1942–45)

Vocal

*Lieder der Vergänglichkeit, cantata for baritone and strings (1951) *Four epitaphs for soprano and strings (1952) *Notturno for soprano and orchestra (1958)

Songs

*50 songs, including the nursery rhymes ''Mice in moonlight'' (1961)

Works for the stage

*Opera ''Svart är vitt''(Black is white-said the emperor), 1965

Recording

*Laci Boldemann, Swedish Society Discofil, 1988. (

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References

1921 births 1969 deaths Swedish classical composers Swedish male classical composers 20th-century classical composers Swedish opera composers Male opera composers Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United States Swedish people of German descent Swedish people of Finnish descent Musicians from Helsinki 20th-century Swedish people 20th-century Swedish male musicians 20th-century Swedish musicians Finnish emigrants to Sweden Finnish expatriates in the United Kingdom {{Sweden-composer-stub