Nils-Eric Ringbom

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Nils-Eric Ringbom (around 1960)
from left: Jean Sibelius , Ringbom and Eugene Ormandy (1951)

Nils-Eric Ringbom (born December 27, 1907 in Turku , † February 13, 1988 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish composer , musicologist , music critic and music manager .

Life

Nils-Eric Ringbom studied violin with Leo Funtek at the Helsinki University of Music and musicology at the Åbo Akademi with Otto Andersson , where he received his doctorate in 1955 with a dissertation on problems of program music . As a violinist, he was a member of the Åbo Philharmonic Orchestra between 1927 and 1933. From 1938 he worked as a librarian at the Helsingin kaupunginorkesteri (Helsinki Philharmonic) and became its managing director in 1943. He carried out this activity until his retirement in 1970. From 1951 to 1960 he directed the Sibelius Festival, from 1966 to 1971 the Helsinki Festival and in 1964 and 1965 the Sibelius Violin Competition . He was a member of the board of directors of the Finnish Academy of Music, the Sibelius Academy .

Ringbom was one of the founders of the Finnish section of the International Society for New Music (IGNM) and the Suomen Säveltäjät (Finnish Association of Composers). He wrote music reviews for the Swedish-language newspapers in Finland.

Ringbom composed, among other things, five symphonies and an orchestral suite, and in 1952 his wind sextet was performed at the IGNM conference in Salzburg .

Fonts (selection)

  • Helsingfors orkesterföretag 1882–1932 . Helsingfors, 1932
  • Sibelius . Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1948
    • Jean Sibelius: A Master and His Work . From d. Swedish transfer by Edzard Schaper . Olten: Walter, 1950
  • About the interpretability of musical art . Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1955. (The dissertation was also originally written in German.)

literature

  • Tomi Mäkelä: Ringbom, Nils-Eric . In: Friedrich Blume (Ed.): MGG . tape 14 . Bärenreiter Verlag, 2005, Sp. 175-176 .
  • Ruth-Esther Hillila, Barbara Blanchard Hong: Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997, p. 337 (en)

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personal data
SURNAME Ringbom, Nils-Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ringbom, Nils Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish musicologist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Turku
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1988
Place of death Helsinki