Ture Rangström
1884 - 1947
Swedish
Summary
Rangström started to write songs in his late teens. He was born in Stockholm and studied music in Berlin with Hans Pfitzner in 1905-1906. He studied singing with the Wagnerian Julius and later relocated to Munich to continue his studies with the singer. Between 1907 and 1922 he taught singing and, until 1925, was the principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, a tenure that lasted three years. In 1924 Rangström founded the Swedish Society of Composers and was employed to promote the works of the Royal Swedish Opera from 1931 to 1936.
Many of his early works took the form of symphonic poems and following the success of these poems, Rangström began work on his symphonies of which there would be four. However,all of them bear programmatic titles, like the Second Symphony, Mitt land ("My country”) (1919). Across his career Rangström composed a number of operas and almost 300 songs, of which he personally orchestrated approximately 60.
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