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Carl Natanael Berg (born February 9, 1879 in Stockholm ; † October 14, 1957 there ) was a Swedish composer.

Berg studied veterinary medicine and initially trained himself musically as an autodidact. He then studied singing with Julius Günther and composition with Johan Lindegren at the Stockholm Conservatory . Until 1939 he worked as a veterinarian in the Swedish Army, after which he was a freelance composer. From 1918 to 1924 he was President of the Swedish Composers Association.

He composed five operas and three ballets , six symphonies and several symphonic poems, a piano and a violin concerto, a serenade for violin and orchestra, a piano quintet, ballads , songs and piano pieces in the late romantic style.

Works

  • Saul och David , 1907
  • Eros vrede , 1907
  • Traumgewalten , symphonic poem, 1910
  • Leila , Opera, 1910
  • Mannen och kvinnan , 1911
  • Predicars , 1911
  • Everything ends what comes into being , 1st symphony 1913
  • Varde Ljus , symphonic poem, 1914
  • Älvorna , ballet, 1914
  • Israel's lovsång , 1915
  • Årstiderna , Symphony No. 2, 1916
  • Makter , Symphony No. 3, 1917
  • Piano quintet , 1917
  • The bathing children , 1918
  • Violin Concerto , 1918
  • Pezzo Sinfonico , 4th Symphony, 1918
  • Sensitiva , ballet, 1919
  • String Quartet , 1919
  • Hertiginnans friare , ballet, 1920
  • Serenade for violin and orchestra , 1923
  • Trilogia delle passioni " , 5th Symphony, 1924
  • Höga Visan , 1925
  • Engelbrekt , Opera, 1928 ( Engelbrecht , Braunschweig 1933)
  • Piano concerto , 1931
  • Judith , Opera, 1935
  • Birgitta , Opera, 1942
  • Genoveva , Opera, 1944-46
  • Tre konungar , part 1, opera (unfinished), 1950–1954, orchestrated until 1957

Discography

He is currently (May 2012) on three CDs available in Germany:

  • Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (German State Philharmonic Rhineland-Palatinate, Ari Rasilainen); Classic production osnabrück 2007
  • Symphony No. 3 "Makter" + Reverenza; Hertiginnan's friare-Suite (Norrköping SO, Ari Rasilainen), cpo 2006
  • Symphony No. 4 "Pezzo sinfonico" + Birgitta Suite; Piano concerto in c sharp (sterling CD, 1976–1991)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hollfelder: The Piano Music, 1999, Hamburg
  2. Information + audio samples
  3. Information + audio samples
  4. jpc.de

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