Jörgen Dafgård (born 27 November 1964 in

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

) is a Swedish

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

. He gained international repute in connection with the 2003 Masterprize competition, in which his orchestral work ''Veils'' reached the top ten. His compositions have been broadcast on

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and

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as well as Scandinavian radio stations such as

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and

Sveriges Radio P2 P2 (''pe två'') is one of the four main radio channels operated by Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcasting organization Sveriges Radio (SR). It broadcasts music (principally classical music and jazz) and also carries educational prog ...

. Dafgård studied composition with Anders Nilsson and Johan Hammerth and later at the Malmö Music Academy with

Hans Gefors Hans Gefors (born 8 December 1952) is a Swedish composer. He was born in Stockholm and has lived in Lund since the mid-1990s. Selected works * ''La boîte chinoise'', for guitar (1975) * ''Poeten och glasmästaren'', chamber opera (1979, libretto ...

, Javier Alvarez,

Hans Abrahamsen Hans Abrahamsen (born 23 December 1952) is a Danish composer born in Kongens Lyngby near Copenhagen. His ''Let me tell you (Abrahamsen), Let me tell you'' (2013), a song cycle for soprano and orchestra, was ranked by music critics at ''The Guard ...

and Kent Olofsson.

Selected works

* Snösmältning för piano (1993) * ''Veils'' for

orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, ...

(1995/2005) * ''For the Sleeping – Dream Sonata'' (1997-1998), for viola and tape. * String Quartet I (1993-1998) * ''Mosaïque Vibrante'' for

(1999–2000) * ''Den gömda musiken'' for

choir A choir ( ), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin ''chorus'', meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words ...

organ Organ and organs may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a group of tissues organized to serve a common function * Organ system, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body. Musical instruments ...

and

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

(1999–2000, text:

Östen Sjöstrand Östen Sjöstrand (16 June 1925 in Gothenburg – 13 May 2006) was a Sweden, Swedish poet, writer and translator. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1975 and was a member of the Academy's Nobel Committee in Literature, Nobel committee b ...

) * ''Wind Quintet'' (2001–2002) * ''Sinfonia No. 1'' for

(2003–2004) * ''Volo'' for

string orchestra A string orchestra is an orchestra consisting solely of a string section made up of the bowed strings used in Western Classical music. The instruments of such an orchestra are most often the following: the violin, which is divided into first a ...

(2004) * ''Mosaïque Vibrante'' (2010) * ''Through Fire and Water'' (2011) for large orchestra * ''Esprit'' (2012) * Klarinettkonsert (2013) * ''Eclipse'' (Concerto, Violin) (2018)

References

External links

Jörgen Dafgård's homepage

Jörgen Dafgård on Soundcloud
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dafgard, Jorgen 1964 births 20th-century Swedish classical composers 21st-century Swedish classical composers Living people Musicians from Gothenburg Swedish male classical composers 20th-century Swedish male musicians 20th-century Swedish musicians 21st-century Swedish male musicians