Adolf Wiklund

Adolf Wiklund ( born June 5, 1879 in Långserud (Värmland ), † April 3, 1950 in Stockholm) was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist.

Life

Adolf Wiklund, the son of an organist, he studied from 1896 to 1901 at the College of Music Stockholm, then piano with Richard Andersson and counterpoint and composition with Johan Lindegren. Then he left Sweden for nearly 10 years to, among other things in Paris - made ​​possible by a Jenny Lind scholarship - to pursue further studies. There he was in 1903 /04 served as organist of the Swedish Church. In Berlin, he took piano lessons from James Kwast. After a conductor beginnings as an assistant at the Karlsruhe Court Theatre (1906 ), he worked from 1908 in Berlin, among others, as a coach at the Royal Opera House. From 1911 he worked again in Sweden and was there until 1924 conductor at the Opera in Stockholm ( 1923 Hofkapellmeister ) and 1924-1938 Second conductor of Konsertföreningens Orkester Stockholm. As a conductor, he made ​​several trips abroad and was also an esteemed pianist.

Work

Wiklunds relatively narrow catalog of works includes, among other things, a Symphony ( in F minor, Op 20, 1923), two piano concertos ( E minor op 10 to 1906/ 07, B minor, Op 17, 1917) and the symphonic poem Sommarnatt och soluppgång ( summer night and sunrise ), Op 19 (1918 ), continue solo compositions for piano and a violin sonata. In his music, late-romantic, sometimes impressionistic influences are apparent. The two piano concertos, which are considered essential Swedish contributions to this genre, refer to Brahms and the Swedish composer Stenhammar colleagues.