Daniel Börtz

Daniel Börtz (born August 8, 1943 in Hässleholm ) is a Swedish composer.

Life

Börtz studied at the Royal Music College in Stockholm and from 1961 had composition lessons with Hilding Rosenberg . In the 1970s and 1980s he taught orchestration at the Royal Music College. From 1998 to 2003 he was President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music .

Börtz composed chamber music, orchestral works, including several instrumental concerts and twelve symphonies, and several operas. The opera Bakchen was premiered in 1991 at the Royal Stockholm Opera, directed by Ingmar Bergman . After its world premiere at the Folkoperan in Stockholm, the opera Marie Antoinette was performed fifty times in front of a sold out house. Börtz lives in Kungsängen near Stockholm.

Works

12 symphonies
11 monologhi (pieces for solo instrument)
String Quartet No. 2 , 1971
Muren - Vägen - Ordet (The Wall - The Way - The Word, Libretto by Bengt van Wall ), Church Opera, 1972
Den heliga Birgittas död och mottagande i Himmelen (Saint Birgitta's death and reception in heaven, libretto by Bengt van Wall), Church Opera, 1973
Nightflies for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, trombone, percussion, piano, organ and cello, 1973
Landskap med flod (Landscape with a River), Opera, 1974
Night Clouds for string orchestra, 1975
Concerto grosso , 1977-78
Dialogo 2 for 2 violas, 1978
Oktobermusic for strings, 1978
Winter pieces for tuba, piano and percussion, 1981–82
Winter Pieces 2 for wind quintet, 1982
Winter Pieces 3 for brass quintet, 1982–83
Sommerelegie for flute and strings, 1983
Cello Concerto , 1985
String Quartet No. 3 , 1986
Oboe Concerto , 1986
Parados for orchestra, 1987
Bacchanterna (The Bacchae of Euripides , translation by Jan Stolpe and Göran O. Eriksson ), Opera, 1991
Mörka sånger om ljset (Dark Songs of Light), 1992–94
Sånger om döden (Songs of Death) for soprano and orchestra, 1992–94
Canto desolato for organ, 1993
Strindberg Suite for Orchestra, 1993–94
Trumpet Concerto , 1994–95
Pictures for clarinet and string quartet, 1996
Gryningsvind for male choir, 1997
Marie Antoinette och hennes kärlek till Axel von Fersen (Marie Antoinette and her love for Axel von Fersen, libretto by Claes Fellbom ), opera, 1998
Hans namn var Orestes (His name was Orestes), Oratorio, 2001-02
Goya , Opera, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME	Börtz, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish composer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hässleholm