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  Composers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
We chose Hugo Alfvén, because of his Swedish Rhapsody, bypassing the early Franz Berwald, the neo-romantic Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, whose "Frösöblomster" is a perennial favourite, and Wilhelm Stenhammar who was probably the most distinguished of his contemporaries.
Hugo Alfvén is best-known for his colourfully orchestrated symphonies, ballets, songs and rhapsodies.
Hugo Alfvén studied music and violin at the Stockholm Conservatory where his talent was quickly discovered and he was awarded scholarships to make study tours to Germany, France and Belgium.
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 Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
Hugo Alfven (1872-1960) is known outside of Sweden primarily for his symphonies.
From its Rigoletto style opening the music moves from to the solemn to the festive to the ceremonial, all in Alfven's wonderfully lush harmonic language.
We encounter the romantic Alfven again in the Allegreto second movement, where chromatic brass fanfares contrast with a strict Bach-derived chorale.
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 CD Review
Hugo Alfvén represents the quintessence of the late romantic composer in Sweden.
Everything he did, he did with the utmost conviction, in his youth studying the violin, later as a conductor and most obviously as a composer, where his strong belief in melody and consonance reigns.
Thus Alfvén's third symphony became his Italian, despite the virtual lack of even a remotely Italian musical connection, Alfvén, true to his roots, shows his profound knowledge of the rural folk music of Sweden, translating it (like in so many of his works) into an idiom of his own.
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 Hugo Alfvénsällskapet
Hugo Alfvén, the composer of Midsommarvaka (the Midsummer Vigil), the ballet Bergakungen (the Mountain King), 5 symphonies, some 60 art songs, innumerable choral songs and choral settings was one of Sweden's most all-round and fascinating personalities during the first half of the 20th century.
The aim of the Hugo Alfvén Society is to promote the knowledge of his music and his other activities.
He is very positive to the interpretations by Neeme Järvi and the Stockholm Philharmonics which were recorded on behalf of the Hugo Alfvén Foundation and are now brought together in one box of 5 CDs
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 Hugo Alfvén - Classical music composer
Hugo Alfven, Lars-Erik Larsson, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Prentzel, August Soderman, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Dag Wiren
Edvard Grieg, Hugo Alfven, Carl Nielsen, Norwegian Traditional, Rolf Loveland, Fini Henriques, Andreas Randel, Ulrik Neumann, W. Peterson-Berger, Finn Aiegler, Evert Taube, Carl Michael Bellman, Ole Borneman Bull, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms, Edvard Grieg, Richard Strauss, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Robert Schumann, Kurt Weill, Ture Rangstrom, Hugo Alfven, Maurice Delage, Gabriel Fauré, Franz Schubert, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claudio Monteverdi, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Gioachino Rossini
www.classical-composers.org /comp/alfven   (650 words)

  
 ALFVEN Orchestral Works Vol.1. Royal Scottish NO/Willen (Naxos) - INKPOT
Hugo Emil Alfvén (left), contemporary to Sibelius, is one of the Swedes' most favourite composers.
A violinist by training and also a fine painter, he studied conducting in Dresden and later became Director of Music at the Uppsala University from 1910-1923.
Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, the sound is very truthful, capturing many details among the winds, giving due prominence to the combined brass sections and laying the heavy drums in its rightful place in the whole picture.
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 Om Hugo Alfvén, life of HugoAlfven, biography Swedish 19th century composer, painter, choral director
Born May 1st in Stockholm, the fourth of the six children of master tailor Anders Alfvén and his wife Lotten Axelsson Puke.
Stricken by a cerebral haemorrhage in May. The Hugo Alfvén Society is planned.
Buried at Leksand cemetery on a slope down towards the Siljan Lake.
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 ALFVEN Orchestral Works Vol.2. Royal Scottish NO/Willen (Naxos) - INKPOT
Nevertheless, 79 minutes of wonderfully accessible music it is: Alfvén's music constantly brims with life, as in this E major Third Symphony, opening with a Brahmsian Allegro con brio - how unsurprising that it was composed while the composer was in Italy.
Hugo Emil Alfvén, contemporary to Sibelius, is one of the Swedes' favourite composers.
The latter stretches its 10½-minutes through the atmosphere of a love song - not surprising again because at that time Hugo was with Marie Kröyer, his wife.
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 Alfven, Hugo (1872-1960) Classical Compositions and Hugo Alfven (1872-1960) classical music sheets.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Alfven, Hugo (1872-1960) Classical Compositions and Hugo Alfven (1872-1960) classical music sheets.
A Swedish composer, conductor and violinist, Alfvén was born and had his musical training in Stockholm.
Alfvén is probably best known abroad for his Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, Midsummer Vigil (Midsommarvaka), rather than for the five symphonies, the Swedish vocal music or chamber music.
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 Hugo Alfvén   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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 ALFVEN
Naxos' commendably ongoing overview of Hugo AlfvÈn's major works conducted by Niklas WillÈn finds the Irish National Symphony replacing the Royal Scottish National, which played the First and Third Symphonies back in 1996.
The Second is paired with a 19-minute, seven-movement suite from the composer's last work, a balletic retelling of the Prodigal Son legend in a Swedish rural setting.
Sound is on the dry side, be advised, but that lets everything in both scores be heard.
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 Alfven, Hugo at Musicroom.com - Sheet Music for Musicians - Search Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
There are 15 titles that match your search term " Hugo Alfven " as an Artist or Composer.
Kaleidoscope is specially arranged to suit almost any instrumental combination and these varied ensembles are easy and enjoyable too.
Hugo Alfven from Sweden wrote three orchestral rhapsodies, of which Midsummer Vigil is by far the most famous.
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 Hugo Alfvén @ Soundbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Hugo Emil Alfvén was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.
Among his works are a large number of pieces for male voice choir, five symphonies and three orchestral "Swedish Rhapsodies", of which the first, Midsommarvaka (Midsummer Vigil, 1903, often simply known as "Swedish Rhapsody"), ranks as his best known piece.
Give your opinion in the Hugo Alfvén forum!
www.soundbug.com /artist/1718   (183 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Swedish Rhap 1/2/Skerries/Eleg: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The colors that Alfven writes are truly unique: lush and often very eclectic.
One of the rhapsodies is a montage of old ivy league college tunes.
What truly gets me each time I listen to it is Alfven's skill at writing both beautiful and exhilarating lines for the French Horn.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000AVI   (283 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Continental Light Music Classi: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Ronald Corp (Conductor), Hugo Alfven (Composer), Ernesto Becucci (Composer), Oscar Fetras (Composer), Charles Gounod (Composer), Johan Halvorsen (Composer), Joseph Hellmesberger (Composer), Jonny Heykens (Composer), Leon Jessel (Composer), Franz Lehar (Composer), Paul Lincke (Composer), Jose Padilla (Composer), Gabriel Pierne (Composer), Johann II Strauss (Composer), Emile Waldteufel (Composer), Jaromir Weinberger (Composer), New London Orchestra (Orchestra)
My only quibble is regarding the statement in the notes that the Alfven piece included here had wide currency in the 1950s under the name "Swedish Polka".
It was the first few minutes of Alfven's "Midsummer Vigil", in a version by Percy Faith and His Orchestra, that topped the charts in the early 1950s, given the title "Swedish Rhapsody".
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003007   (710 words)

  
 Amazon.com: En kvinna mellan två män: Konstnärsparet Kr²yer och Hugo Alfvén på Skagen: Books: Knud Voss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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En kvinna mellan två män: Konstnärsparet Kr²yer och Hugo Alfvén på Skagen (Unknown Binding)
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 Hugo Godron - Classical music composer
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Fryderyk Chopin, Gaetano Donizetti, Mikhail Glinka, Franz Liszt, Elias Parish Alvars, Wilhelm Posse, Hugo Reinhold, Antonio Rosler Rossetti Rosety Rosetti, Louis Spohr
Joseph Marie Canteloube, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Faure, George Frideric Handel, Claus Ogermann, Carl Orff, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf
www.classical-composers.org /comp/godron   (368 words)

  
 All titles of Hugo at DocRock CD, LP, DVD, Music, Musik, Discographie, Archiv, Shop buy
All titles of Hugo at DocRock CD, LP, DVD, Music, Musik, Discographie, Archiv, Shop buy
ALFVEN, HUGO / ROYAL PHIL CHOIR OF STOCKHOLM
BRIXI / HERMANOVA / HUGO / CAPELLA REGIA MUSICALIS
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 ALFVEN Symphony 4 etc. NAXOS 8.557284 [WT]: Classical CD Reviews- Feb 2005 MusicWeb-International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
ALFVEN Symphony 4 etc. NAXOS 8.557284 [WT]: Classical CD Reviews- Feb 2005 MusicWeb-International
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 :: Studio 52 - CD Info: HUGO ALFVEN / SYMPHONY NO.2 OP.11 - THE PRODIGAL SON
:: Studio 52 - CD Info: HUGO ALFVEN / SYMPHONY NO.2 OP.11 - THE PRODIGAL SON
HUGO ALFVEN / SYMPHONY NO.2 OP.11 - THE PRODIGAL SON
HUGO ALFVEN / SYMPHONY NO.2 OP.11 - THE PRODIGA...
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