Bjørn Fongaard

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Bjørn Halsten Fongaard (born March 2, 1919 in Oslo ; † October 26, 1980 ibid) was a Norwegian composer , guitarist and music teacher .

Life

Fongaard was the son of a working class family from Oslo and grew up in the Ekeberg district . The parents were Paul Anton Fongaard and Sigrid Hjelmberg.

Bjørn Fongaard first studied harmony and piano with Kristian Lange . In 1945 he completed his training as a guitarist and pianist at the Oslo Conservatory , and in 1947 as a conductor . Privately he studied composition with Per Steenberg , Sigurd Islandsmoen , Bjarne Brustad and Karl Andersen .

Hindemith , Schönberg, and Webern were early sources of inspiration, and Fongaard wrote music in traditional genres before focusing on microtonal music . In order to realize his ideas, he first built a quarter-tone guitar, later a fretless guitar and finally a prepared guitar.

Fongaard was a very prolific composer; In total he wrote over 250 pieces, 150 with opus numbers, including orchestral works, electronic music, chamber music, concerts, piano and organ suites, songs, choral pieces and symphonies.

Works

Orchestral works

  • Uranium 235 (1963)
  • 23 concerts for piano and orchestra op.118
  • 12 concerts for solo instrument and orchestra op.120
  • 12 symphonies
  • Symphonic poems
  • 18 concerts for different wind instruments
  • 7 violin concerts
  • 5 organ concerts

Chamber music

Electronic music for microtonal guitar

  • Galaxe op.46 (1966)
  • Homo Sapiens op. 80 (1966)
  • Epic (1967)
  • Aforismer (1968)
  • Elektrofonia 1-7, 1970
  • genesis
  • Sinfonia Microtonalis op. 79
  • Orchestra Antiphonalis
  • Sonata (1970)
  • Suite (1971)
  • Andromeda , ballet (1971)
  • Dimensjoner , ballet (1972)

Sound carrier

  • Fongaard: Electrofoni. Works For Micro Intervallic Guitar 1965-1978 , PRISMACD711 2010

literature

  • Bjarne Kortsen : Contemporary Norwegian Orchestral Music (about Uran 235), Bergen 1969, pp. 133–144
  • Sigrun Schneider: Microtones in 20th Century Music. Investigations on the theory and design principles of modern compositions with microtones , Verlag für systematic Musikwissenschaft, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1975, pp. 176–179
  • T. Jensen: Bjørn Fongaard og de tonende univers , in: Ballade No. 4/1994, pp. 22-26
  • E. Klein: Bjørn Fongaard - en glemt pioner? , in: Norsk musikktidsskrift No. 1/1994, pp. 4–5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Lars Mørch Finborud: Notes on electrofoni ...
  2. ↑ Elef Nesheim: Bjørn Fongaard. Norsk biografisk leksikon , accessed December 25, 2012 (Norwegian).
personal data
SURNAME Fongaard, Bjørn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fongaard, Bjørn Halsten (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian composer, guitarist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1980
Place of death Oslo