Hugo Alfvén
Publisher: Edition Wilhelm Hansen
...Alfvén employs the wordless voice to conjure an atmosphere of chilling other-worldliness
- of lost souls calling to each other in passages of almost erotic desire –
Classic FM(1903; orchestra)
(1899; orchestra)
- 1946-1952 writes his four-volume autobiography
- 1939 settles in Leksand, Sweden after retiring
- 1910-1939 Director Musices at Uppsala university
- 1908 appointed as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
- 1899 first performance of the Second Symphony, which became Alfvén's break-through as a composer
- 1897-1907 lives and studies outside of Sweden for several periods (Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Denmark, etc.)