Isak Albert Berg
Isak Albert Berg (born September 22, 1803 in Stockholm , † December 1, 1886 ibid) was a Swedish tenor , singing teacher and composer .
Life
Berg was born to Abraham Berg (1764–1829) and Kristina Charlotta Ferngren. Initially, at the age of 15, he was instructed by the singing master of the Stockholm Opera, Carl Magnus Craelius (Crælius). When he moved to Uppsala to study, he had to interrupt the singing school, but completed it in 1824. He then took up more specific singing training with the Italian tenor Giuseppe Siboni in Copenhagen . He then traveled to various German-speaking places (Dresden, Prague and Vienna) from 1827 to 1829 and made his debut in Italy in 1828 at the Venetian Teatro San Benedetto in the title role of Pietro Generali's opera Jefte , but also performed in Trieste.
In 1829 Berg returned to Sweden and was appointed Hovsångare of Sweden in 1831 , the same year he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music . For more than 27 years he was the singing master of the Royal Stockholm Opera (1831-1850 and 1862-1870). In addition to this activity, he worked as a singing teacher and song composer. He was the director of the Harmonic Society and the Society for Song Singing.
Berg is considered one of the most important singing teachers. His students included Jenny Lind , Oscar Arnoldson, Matilda Gelhaar , Prince Gustaf of Sweden and Norway and Prince Gustav ( Oscar II ). Berg composed, among other things, the song “Fjärran han dröjer”, which became known outside of Sweden through Jenny Lind.
On April 16, 1831, Berg married Lovisa Karolina Hjortsberg (born April 15, 1807 - † June 8, 1868), daughter of the actor Lars Hjortsberg. He was the father of the painter Albert Berg , the singer Helena Petre and the author Sonja Berg Pleijel , and the grandfather of the writer Agneta Pleijel and the director Sonja Pleijel .
In 1862 Berg became a knight of the Vasa Order .
Web links
- Berg, Isak Albert . In: Nils Linder (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 1st edition. tape 2 : Barometer capitularis . Gernandts boktryckeri, Stockholm 1878, Sp. 262 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Tobias Norlind: Isak Albert Berg. In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Volume 3, 1922, p. 377 (Swedish, digitized ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berg, Isak Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish tenor, singing teacher and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1886 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |