Kåre Kolberg

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Kåre Kolberg (born April 24, 1936 in Birkenes , † August 19, 2014 in Holmestrand ) was a Norwegian composer and organist.

Kolberg graduated from the Stockholm Conservatory in 1958 with a cantor and organist examination and from 1961 was organist at the Grorud Kirke for twenty years . He completed his studies at the University of Oslo in 1963 with a master's degree in musicology.

From 1964 to 1966 he was an assistant at the University of Oslo, from 1967 to 1970 a music reporter for Dagbladet . From 1966 to 1969 he was a fellow of the Norwegian Research Council ( Norges almenvitenskapelige forskningsråd , NAVF). For a short time he also worked as a music advisor for Norwegian Radio Television .

As a representative of the interests of Norwegian contemporary composers, Kolberg was chairman of the nyMusikk society from 1970 to 1973, chairman of the coordination committee of Kunstneraksjon-74 from 1974 to 1976 and chairman of the Norwegian composers' association from 1979 to 1984.

As a composer, Kolberg joined the avant-garde currents of his time, striving to dissolve the separation between “classical” music and jazz, between music and related art forms. Plym-Plym (1966) for mixed choir, vocal quartet and speaker is a collage and language composition in which song, language and meaningless phonetic tones are interwoven. A central work of the 1960s is the church ballet Hakena'nit (The Canaanite Woman) for organ, percussion and dance (1968). In Jaba 768 (1968) Kolberg lets three jazz musicians improvise on the basis of a graphic score. In 1974 he created Tivoli , Norway's first television opera. The vocal quartet For the Time Being was voted Work of the Year 1984 by the Composers' Association.

Works

  • Ludus for organ, 1962
  • Quartetto per archi , 1964
  • Suoni per archi , 1965
  • Plym-Plym for mixed choir, vocal quartet and speaker, 1966
  • Hakena'nit (Den kanaaneiske kvinne) , church ballet for organ, percussion and dancer, 1968
  • Jaba 768 for jazz trio, 1968
  • Keizerens nye slips for electroacoustic instruments, 1973
  • Tivoli , television opera, 1974
  • Pasticcio for recorder quartet, 1976
  • For the time being for vocal quartet, 1985
  • Bozza per orchestra , 1994

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personal data
SURNAME Kolberg, Kåre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian composer and organist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Birch trees
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 2014
Place of death Holmestrand