Adolf Wiklund

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Adolf Wiklund (1920)

Adolf Wiklund (born June 5, 1879 in Långserud ( Värmland ), † April 3, 1950 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish composer , conductor and pianist .

Life

Adolf Wiklund, the son of an organist , studied at the Stockholm University of Music from 1896 to 1901 , then piano with Richard Andersson and counterpoint and composition with Johan Lindegren . He then left Sweden for almost 10 years in order to pursue further studies in Paris - made possible by a Jenny Lind scholarship. There he worked as an organist for the Swedish Church in 1903/04. In Berlin he received piano lessons from James Kwast . After starting out as a conductor as an assistant at the Karlsruhe Court Theater (1906), from 1908 he worked in Berlin as a repetitor at the Royal Opera . From 1911 he worked again in Sweden, where he was Kapellmeister at the Stockholm Opera until 1924 (from 1923 Hofkapellmeister) and from 1924 to 1938 Second Conductor of the Konsertföreningens Orkester Stockholm. As a conductor, he went on various trips abroad and was also a valued pianist.

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Wiklund's relatively narrow catalog of works includes a symphony (F minor, op. 20, 1923), two piano concertos (E minor, op. 10, around 1906/07; B minor, op. 17, 1917) and the symphonic poem Sommarnatt och soluppgång ( Midsummer Night and Sunrise ) op. 19 (1918), also solo compositions for piano and a violin sonata. Late romantic and sometimes impressionistic influences can be seen in his music . The two piano concertos, which are regarded as essential Swedish contributions to this genre, refer to Brahms and his Swedish composer colleague Wilhelm Stenhammar .

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SURNAME Wiklund, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish composer, conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Långserud
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1950
Place of death Stockholm