Bengt Hambraeus

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Bengt Hambraeus (born January 29, 1928 in Stockholm , † September 21, 2000 in Apple Hill , Ontario ) was a Swedish composer, organist and musicologist.

Hambraeus studied organ with Alf Linder from 1944 to 1948 and musicology with Carl-Allan Moberg in Uppsala from 1947 to 1956 . He also completed his organ training with Ernst Karl Rössler in Germany (1949–52) and studied composition with Olivier Messiaen (1951–55) at the Darmstadt Summer Courses .

From 1957 to 1972 Hambraeus worked for the Swedish radio, first as a program producer, from 1964 as head of the chamber music department and from 1968 as production manager. In 1972 he settled in Canada, where he taught at the McGill University Music Faculty until his retirement in 1995.

The organ was at the center of Hambraeus' compositional work; In addition, he also composed several stage and orchestral works, pieces for chamber music and works for electroacoustic instruments. He was a pioneer of electronic music in Sweden. His piece Doppelrohr II (1955) was one of the first Scandinavian works of this kind, and his composition Constellations I (1958) influenced Ligeti's Volumina (1962). He was awarded the Neeme Järvi Prize of the University of Gothenburg in 1993 and the Hilding Rosenberg Prize in 1995. In 1986 he received the highest Swedish award for artists, the royal medal Litteris et Artibus .

Hambraeus published a number of musicological publications, including on Buxtehude's organ music . In 1997 Aspects of Twentieth-Century Performance Practice: Memories and Reflections was published .

Works

  • Toccata for piano, 1947–49
  • Concerto for organ and harpsichord , 1947-51
  • Koralförspel for organ, 1948
  • Toccata pro tempore pentecostes for organ, 1948
  • Music for ancient strings , 1948
  • Konsert för organ och stråkorkester , 1948
  • Cantigas de Santa Maria for soprano, alto, baritone and three instruments, 1949
  • Little music for oboe, strings and timpani, 1949
  • Musique pour trompette, violon et piano , 1949
  • Introitus et Tritychon for organ, 1949
  • String Quartet No. 2 , 1949
  • Cantigas de Santa Maria for mixed choir and organ, 1950
  • Recitative och Koral for violin and piano, 1950
  • Music for organ , 1950
  • Recitativ och Koral for violin, strings and piano, 1950
  • Triptych for mixed choir, 1950
  • Comb music for 6 instruments , 1950
  • Cantata pro defunctis for baritone and organ, 1951
  • Liturgia pro organo , 1951-52
  • Diptychon (Tabu-Mana) , two ritual dances for flute, oboe, viola, celesta and harpsichord, 1951–52
  • Giuoco del Cambio for flute, English horn, bass clarinet, vibraphone, harpsichord, piano and percussion, 1952–54
  • Spectrogram for soprano, flute, vibraphone and percussion, 1953
  • Antiphonies en rondes for soprano and orchestra, 1953
  • Permutations and hymn for organ, 1953
  • Gacelas y casidas de F. García Lorca for tenor, flute, English horn, bass clarinet, vibraphone, bells and percussion, 1953
  • Psalmus CXXII for soprano and organ, 1953
  • Crystal sequence for soprano choir, two trumpets, vibraphone, bells, percussion and twelve violins, 1954
  • Cercles for piano, 1955
  • Composition for Studio II for vibraphone, bells, percussion, piano, harpsichord and organ, 1955
  • Double tube II for tape, 1955
  • Fresque sonore for tape, 1956–57
  • Rota for three orchestral groups and tape, 1956–63
  • Constellations I for organ, 1958
  • Introduzione - Sequenze - Coda for three flutes, six percussionists and two amplifiers, 1958–59
  • Visioner över en svensk folkvisa for tape, 1959
  • Segnali per 7 strumenti a corda , 1959–60
  • Mikrogram Seven Aphorisms for alto flute, viola and vibraphone, 1961
  • Notazioni per clavicembalo ed altri strumenti , 1961
  • Othello: Skådespelmusik , 1961
  • Interferences for Organ, 1961–62
  • Bäckaskog: Skådespelmusik for röster och instrument , 1962
  • Sergeant Musgraves dans: Skådespelmusik for trumpet, trombone and percussion, 1962
  • Transfiguration per orchestra , 1962–63
  • Notturno da vecchi strumenti , 1963
  • Rota II for tape, 1963
  • Transit II for horn, trombone, electric guitar and piano, 1963
  • Invenzione 1 (Quartetto III) , string quartet, 1964
  • Responsory for mixed choir, tenor, church bells and two organs, 1964
  • Tetragon for tape, 1965
  • Tre Hopi-sånger for choir, xylophone and three tom-toms, 1965
  • Prelude, Kyrie, Sanctus for two organs, solo singer, two choirs and church bells, 1966
  • Tre pezzi per organo , 1966-67
  • Motetum archangeli Michaelis per chorum mixtum et organum , 1967
  • Invenzione for two pianos, 1967–68
  • Invenzione 2 for piano, 1968
  • Klockspel for piano, 1968
  • Experiment X: Churchopera for soloists, orchestra and tape, 1968–69
  • Rencontres pour orchester , 1968–71
  • Nebulosa for organ, 1969
  • Nonsense for mixed choir, 1970
  • Menniskan: Churchopera , 1970
  • Pianissimo in due tempi per 20 archi , 1970–72
  • Invocation , 1971
  • Carillon (Le récital oublié) for two pianos , 1972–74
  • Toccata: Monumentum per Max Reger pro organo , 1973
  • Ricercare per organo , 1974
  • Tides for tape, 1974
  • Continuo - a partire da Pachelbel for organ and orchestra, 1974–75
  • Organ Icons , 1974–75
  • Advent (Veni Redemptor Gentium) for organ, four trumpets, four trombones and percussion, 1975
  • Extempore for organ, 1975
  • Ricordanza per orchestra , 1975–76
  • Intrada: calls for tape, 1976
  • Jeu de cinq for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, 1976
  • Tornado for tape, 1976
  • Antiphony: Cathedral Music for Organ, 1977
  • Parade for wind instruments and percussion, 1977
  • Constellations IV for organ and percussion, 1978
  • Sagan: A radioopera in 10 scenes , 1978-79
  • Inductio for soprano, alto, mixed choir, three trumpets and three trombones, 1979
  • Relief - haut et bas for two flutes, three horns, trombone, two percussion sets and two double basses, 1979
  • Strata for two oboes, two clarinets, two basset horns, two bassoons and four horns, 1979–80
  • Capriccio I per clavicembalo , 1980
  • Livre d'orgue , 1981
  • Voluntary on a Swedish hymn tune from Dalecarlia for organ, 1981
  • Alpha - Omega for mixed choir and organ, 1982
  • Constellations V for organ, mixed choir and two reinforced solo sopranos, 1982–83
  • Sheng for oboe and organ, 1983
  • That Harmony for five cornets, flugelhorn, three horns, three trombones, euphonium, two tubas and percussion, 1983
  • La passacaille errante - autour Haendel 1985 for organ, 1984
  • Monologo per flauto solo , 1984
  • Quodlibet re BACH for orchestra, 1984
  • Tre intermezzi per pianoforte , 1984
  • Pedal exercitium for organ, 1985
  • Trio sonata for accordion, trombone and prepared piano, 1985
  • Variations sur un theme de Gilles Vigneault for organ, 1985
  • Symphonia sacra in tempore passionis , 1986
  • Three dances for accordion and percussion, 1986
  • Vortex per due pianoforti , 1986
  • Mirrors for tape, 1987
  • Apocalipsis cum figuris secundum Dürer 1498 for bass, mixed choir and organ, 1987
  • Canvas (meta-music) with mirrors for organ and tape, 1987
  • Five psalms for mixed choir, 1987
  • Après-Sheng for organ, 1988
  • Cadenza per organo grande , 1988
  • Cinque studi canonici per due flauti , 1988
  • Dos recercadas para guitarra y violoncelo , 1988
  • Echoes of loneliness: four choirs , 1988
  • Night-Music for guitar and drums, 1988
  • Litanies pour orchester , 1988-89
  • Nazdar MJ for eleven wind instruments and percussion, 1989
  • Nocturnals: Incantation, Figures fugitives, Choros , 1989
  • Tiento para oboe y tres tomtoms , 1989
  • Loitsu: Incantation for soprano and piano, 1991
  • Rondeau for guitar, 1991
  • Concert for piano and orchestra , 1992
  • Missa pro organo: in memoriam Olivier Messiaen , 1992
  • St. Michael's liturgy , 1992
  • Meteoros for organ, 1993
  • Organum Sancti Jacobi , 1993
  • Songs of the mountain, the moon and television for choir and orchestra, 1993
  • Due rapsodie for piano, 1994
  • Triptyque pour orgue with MIDI , 1994
  • Sonate per cinque for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, 1994–95
  • A solis ortus cardine: variations sur une hymne de noël du Ve siècle for organ, 1995
  • Concentio for wind ensemble and percussion, 1995
  • Concerto per corno principale ed orchestra , 1995–96
  • Klavidar , 1996
  • Archipel pour 15 musiciens-solistes , 1996-97
  • FM 643765 for organ, 1997
  • Labyrinth: a concerto grosso for fifteen strings, 1998
  • Lukas IV: 23-30 for mixed choir, liturgist and organ, 1998
  • Riflessioni per organo grande , 1999
  • Varianti per liuto , 2000

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ A number of sources (Svensk Musik, Canadian Music Center, New Grove, BNF and The Guardian) give September 22, 2000 as the date of death.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on encyclopedia.com
  2. ↑ About Hambraeus' work
personal data
SURNAME Hambraeus, Bengt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish composer, organist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2000
Place of death Apple Hill , Ontario