Henning Mankell (composer)
Ivar Henning Mankell (stress on the first syllable; born June 3, 1868 in Härnösand , northern Sweden, † May 8, 1930 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish composer .
Mankell studied at the Stockholm Conservatory from 1887 to 1891 and was a piano student of Lennart Arvid Lundberg and Hilda Thegerström . Since 1899 he worked there as a piano and harmony teacher. He also wrote music reviews for Svenska Morgonbladet and Stockholms-Tidningen . In 1917 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music .
He composed a piano concerto , a cantata for baritone and orchestra, sonatas , fantasies and ballads for piano, three string quartets , a piano quintet and a piano trio as well as songs .
Henning Mankell is the grandson of the conductor and organist Johann Hermann Mankel , who was born in Niederasphe, a district of Münchhausen , in the Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf and later after stops in France and the Netherlands via Christiansfeld in Denmark as a royal conductor to Karlskrona in Sweden emigrated. Relatives with the name Mankel still live in Münchhausen today.
Mankell is the grandfather of the writer Henning Mankell .
literature
- I Henning Mankell. In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon . Volume 25, 1985-1987, p. 69 ( online ).
Web links
- Henning Mankell . Swedish Music Information Center
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| SURNAME | Mankell, Henning |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mankell, Ivar Henning |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harnösand |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1930 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |