Erik Åkerberg

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Erik Åkerberg

Erik Carl Emanuel Åkerberg (born January 19, 1860 in Stockholm , † January 20, 1938 there ) was a Swedish composer .

1880–83 he studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music , in 1887 he traveled to Paris for a year and was a student of César Franck . He then settled in Stockholm as a conductor and composer. He was u. a. Cantor of the German parish of Stockholm and conductor of the Allgemeine Gesangs-Vereinigung. From 1894 to 1923 he worked as a teacher at the Högre Latinläroverket å Norrmalm , at the same time he was choirmaster from 1891 to 1926, a. a. of the Bellman -Chor founded by him .

The starting point of Åkerberg's compositional work was Swedish folk music. This can be seen in his folk song arrangements for mixed choir and in his ballads . Stylistically, he was based on the French late romanticism . His work includes orchestral and chamber music (four string quartets , two piano and one string quintet, one piano trio), the operas Turandot (1906) and Pinntorpafrun (1915) , which were not performed during Åkerberg's lifetime, as well as numerous choral works.

literature

  • Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Åkerberg, Erik Carl Emanuel. 12th completely revised edition. 1. Personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 16 (first edition: 1882).

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