Adolf Fredrik Lindblad

Adolf Fredrik Lindblad ( born 1 February 1801 in Skänninge; † August 23, 1878 in Linköping ) was a Swedish composer.

Lindblad was since 1823 at the University of Uppsala student of Friedrich Haeffner and studied from 1826 to 1827 in Berlin with Carl Friedrich Zelter. In 1827 he founded a piano school in Stockholm, which he headed until 1862.

Lindblad traveled to Germany several times, made ​​friends with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and learned in Dresden Carl Maria von Weber know.

He composed an opera ( Frondörerna - The Rebel), two symphonies, three violin sonatas and two string quartets. Particularly successful were his over two hundred songs, which owed ​​their popularity not least the spread by the " Swedish Nightingale ", the singer Jenny Lind and earned him the reputation of a Swedish Schubert. Lindblad C Major Symphony of 1831 was performed by Felix Mendelssohn with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig and published by Breitkopf & Härtel in pressure. The D major symphony was premiered in 1855.

Works (selection)

  • Frondörerna (Opera)
  • Songs with piano accompaniment ( from Swedish transmitted by A. Dohrn ), N. Simrock, Bonn
  • Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 19 (1831 ), Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig
  • Symphony No. 2 in D major (1855 )

Discography

  • Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2, in Marco Polo
  • Composer ( romance )
  • Swedish composer
  • Born in 1801
  • Died in 1878
  • Man
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