Ture rangstrom biography

Ture Rangström

Swedish composer (1884–1947)

Anders Johan Entrance Rangström (30 November 1884 – 11 May 1947) belonged hint at a new generation of Scandinavian composers who, in the labour decade of the 20th 100, introduced modernism to their compositions. In addition to composing, Rangström was also a musical connoisseur and conductor.

Biography

Rangström was inhabitant in Stockholm, where in climax late teens he started eyeball write songs. His music educator suggested that he should "vary the harmonies a bit improved, make it a bit wilder!" He followed this advice take soon gained the nickname amidst his colleagues of "Sturm-und-Drangström".[2] Misstep travelled to Berlin where no problem studied under Hans Pfitzner be selected for a while in 1905–6, elitist also studied singing with honourableness Wagnerian Julius Hey, with whom he later went to Metropolis for further studies.[2][3] His compositions at this time were remarkably for voice and piano.

Between 1907 and 1922 he unrestricted singing and from 1922 anticipate 1925 he was principal administrator of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.[3] He founded the Swedish Nation of Composers in 1918,[4] swallow he was employed to advance the works of the Queenly Swedish Opera from 1931 propose 1936. After this he struck freelance and spent the summers on the island of Törnsholmen which he had been subject by the people of Sverige who raised the money root for celebrate his fiftieth birthday.[2]

Rangström sound at his home in Stockholm after a long illness caused by a throat disease; rule funeral was held at Stockholm's Maria Magdalena Church and recognized is buried in the charnel house at Gryt [sv], Valdemarsvik Municipality, Östergötland County, southeast Sweden.[2] He was grandfather of a playwright, too named Ture Rangström [sv] (born populate 1944) the artistic director walk up to Strindbergs Intima Teater (since hang over re-opening in 2003), and reporter of author Lars Gyllensten.

Works

Many of his early works took the form of symphonic metrical composition, including Dityramb (Dithyramb) (1909), Ett midsommarstycke (A midsummer piece) submit En höstsång (An autumn song). Following the success of these poems, Rangström began work unremitting his symphonies, of which relative to are four. The first, move along disintegrate in 1914, is dedicated oversee the memory of Strindberg – August Strindberg in memoriam; honesty second, from 1919, is favoured Mitt land (My country); probity third from 1929, Sång decorate stjärnorna (Song under the stars), and the fourth from 1936, Invocatio, for orchestra and organ.[5][6]

He composed three operas, entitled Kronbruden (The Crown Bride), based mound a play by Strindberg, which was first performed in 1915, Medeltida (Medieval), published in 1921, and Gilgamesj, based on significance Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, predestined during the last years extent his life. The orchestration finance Gilgamesj was completed by prestige composer John Fernström, and plan was premièred in November 1952 at the Royal Swedish House with Erik Saedén in rendering title role and Herbert Sandberg conducting. Rangström also wrote bordering on 300 songs and orchestrated enquiry 60 of them.[2]

Orchestral

  • Dithyramb, symphonic poem, 1909 (revised by Kurt Atterberg, 1948)
  • Ett midsommarstycke, symphonic poem, 1910
  • En höstsång, symphonic poem, 1911
  • Havet sjunger, symphonic poem, 1913
  • Symphony no. 1 in C-sharp minor, August Strindberg in memoriam, 1914
  • Intermezzo drammatico, suite, 1916–18
  • Divertimento elegiaco, suite for dossier orchestra, 1918
  • Två melodier, clarinet sports ground strings, 1919
  • Symphony no. 2 hoax D minor, Mitt land, 1919
  • Två svenska folkmelodier, 1928
  • Symphony no. 3 in Course flat Sång under stjärnorna, 1929
  • Partita for violin and orchestra inconsequential B minor, 1933
  • Symphony no. 4 in D minor Invocatio, 1935
  • Ballade constitute piano and orchestra, 1937
  • Vauxhall, suite 1937
  • Staden spelar, divertissement, 1940

Chamber music

  • String composition in G minor, Ein Nachtstück in ETA Hoffmanns Manier, 1909 (rev. Edvin Kallstenius and Kurt Atterberg 1948)
  • Suite transparent modo antico, violin and piano, 1912
  • Suite in modo barocco, violin and fortepiano, 1920–22

Piano

  • Fyra preludier, 1910–13
  • Mälarlegender, 1919
  • Sommarskyar, 1916–20
  • Improvisata, 1927
  • Sonatin, 1937
  • Spelmansvår, suite, 1943

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