Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

Wilhelm Peterson-BergerWilhelm Peterson-Berger (audio speaker icon 27 February 1867, Ullånger — 3 December 1942, Östersund) was a Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Grieg, August Söderman and Wagner as well as Swedish folk idiom.He is best known for three albums of national romantic piano pieces entitled Frösöblomster I, II and III (Flowers of Frösö), which includes the often performed Vid Frösö kyrka (At Frösö Church) and Sommarsång (Summer Song). The sets, which were composed over a period of 18 years (1896 - 1914) and brought together afterwards as a collection have gained a reputation of representing a quintessential "Swedishness" in the romantic, nationalistic vein of their time. The most famous of the pieces, Sommarsång (Summer Song) recalls the warm, calm, harmonious and bright pre-summer evenings where the sun in the north almost never goes down; they were the great breakthrough for Wilhelm. Sommarsång is still known to most Swedes, even to people generally uninterested in music: the majority of young piano students in the Nordic countries have been taught this piece. His songs for vocal ensemble are also still regularly performed, and are part of the core repertoire of Swedish choirs.

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Aspåkerspolska p.3 songsofie (4)
4859d ago
1 Piano, Vocal Original
Aspåkerspolska p.2 songsofie (4)
4859d ago
1 Piano, Vocal Original
Jungfrun under Lind mats (2)
4900d ago
2 Piano, Vocal Original
Sommarsång Marlene (6)
5540d ago
2 Piano Original