Gunnar de Frumerie

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Gunnar de Frumerie (around 1935)

Per Gunnar Fredrik de Frumerie (born July 20, 1908 in Nacka , † September 9, 1987 in Täby ) was a Swedish pianist and composer .

Life

Gunnar de Frumerie studied at the Conservatory of Stockholm with Ernst Henrik Ellberg and Lennart Arvid Lundberg , then in Vienna with Emil von Sauer and finally at the Conservatoire de Paris with Alfred Cortot . Since 1945 he has been teaching piano at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm .

He composed an opera ( Singoalla , 1940), a ballet ( Johannesnatten , 1948), a melodrama , two piano concertos , a double concerto for two pianos, a violin and a trumpet concerto, a horn concerto, Op. 70, a cello concerto op. 81 (as op. 82 also arranged for trombone), two flute concerts, chamber music works, piano pieces, choirs and songs . His best-known work is the neoclassical Pastoral Suite for flute, harp and string orchestra op.13.

Gunnar de Frumerie was the brother of the cellist Carin de Frumerie-Luthander .

literature

  • Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Frumerie, Per Gunnar Fredrik de. 12th completely revised edition. 1. Personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 559 (first edition: 1882).
  • Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Frumerie, Per Gunnar Fredrik de. 12th completely revised edition. 4. Personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1972, p. 385 (first edition: 1882).
  • Nicolas Slonimsky : Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians . Frumerie, (Per) Gunnar (Fredrik) de. 7th edition. Oxford University Press, London, New York, Toronto 1984, ISBN 0-19-311335-X , pp. 774 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Haglund:  Frumerie, Gunnar de. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
personal data
SURNAME Frumerie, Gunnar de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frumerie, Per Gunnar Fredrik de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Nacka
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1987
Place of death Taby