Wilhelm Peterson-Shepherd

Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Shepherd is a Compositeur and Journaliste Swedish, born the February 27th 1867 with Ullånger (in Ångermanland) and dead the December 3rd 1942 with Östersund

Biography

From 1888 to 1990, he studies the organ and the composition with the royal Academy of music of Stockholm before improving with Dresden. He composes his first oeuves then turns to musical criticism for the Swedish daily newspaper " Dagens Nyheter" practically without interruption of 1896 to 1930. Readily provocative, it is respected and dreaded by the whole of the profession even if quickly its preserving musical designs make it be opposed to its young Scandinavian contemporaries Jean Sibélius, Carl Nielsen, Wilhelm Stenhammar or Hugo Alfven.

Influenced by August Söderman, Edvard Grieg and especially Richard Wagner which he admires, he translates number of the texts of this last, in particular that of the opera Tristan and Isolde. He also puts many poems of Friedrich Nietzsche in music.

In 1921, it is received member of the royal Academy of music of Sweden. In 1927, he works with the royal Opéra of Stockholm before settling on the island of Frösö (Jämtland) in 1930.

In 1936, he undertakes a round in Norway then with the the United States.

In addition to its symphonic works and operas, it composed more than 80 popular songs based in particular on poems of Erik Axel Karlfeldt, of which Aspåkerspolska .

Principal works

Symphonies

  • Symphony n° 1 Baneret (the banner), in so major (1889-90)
  • Symphony n° 2 Sunnanfärd (Voyage towards the south), in major E flat (1910)
  • Symphony n° 3 Same-Ätnam (Lapland), in minor F (1913-15) . This symphony was creates into 1927 in the United States by Leopold Stokowski with the head of the Orchestre of Philadelphia
  • Symphonie n° 4 Holmia , in major (1929) the
  • Symphonie n° 5 Solitudo (Loneliness), in so minor (1932-33)

Other works with orchestra

  • Suite for orchestra I will somras (Last summer) (1903)
  • Romance for violin and orchestra (1915)
  • Suite for orchestra Earina (1917)
  • Suite for orchestra Italiana (1922)
  • Concerto for violin (1928)

Operas

  • Ran (1900)
  • Arnljot (1909)
  • Domedagsprofeterna (prophets of the last Judgment) (1917)
  • Adils och Elisiv (Adils and Elisiv) (1924)

Writings

  • Svensk Musikkultur (Swedish musical Culture) (1911)
  • Richard Wagner som kulturföreteelse (Richard Wagner as a cultural phenomenon) (1913)

External bonds

  • Site devoted to the type-setter (in Swedish)

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