Bengt Hambraeus

Bengt Hambraeus ( born January 29, 1928 in Stockholm; † 21 September 2000 in Apple Hill, Ontario ) was a Swedish composer, organist and musicologist.

Hambraeus studied from 1944 to 1948 organ with Alf Lindner and 1947-1956 in Uppsala musicology with Carl- Allan Moberg. In addition, he completed his organ training at Ernst Karl Rössler in Germany ( 1949-52 ) and studied at the Darmstadt Summer Courses composition with Olivier Messiaen ( 1951-55 ).

From 1957 to 1972 Hambraeus worked for the Swedish radio, first as a program producer, in 1964 as Head of the Department of chamber music and from 1968 as a production manager. He left in 1972 in Canada, where he taught at the Faculty of Music at McGill University until his retirement in 1995.

The focus of Hambraeus ' compositional work was the organ; but in addition he also composed several works for the stage, pieces of chamber musician and works for electro-acoustic instruments. He was honored in 1993 with the Neemi - Järvi Prize of the University of Gothenburg and in 1995 with the Hilding Rosenberg Prize. In 1986, he received the highest award for Swedish artists, the royal medal Litteris et Artibus.

Hambraeus published a series of musicological publications, including on the organ music of Buxtehude. 1997 published Aspects of Twentieth-century performance practice: Memories and Reflections.

Works

• Toccata for Piano, 1947-49
• Concerto for organ and harpsichord, 1947-51
• Koralförspel for Organ, 1948
• Toccata for organ pro tempore Pentecostes, 1948
• Music for ancient strings, 1948
• Konsert promote organ och stråkorkester, 1948
• Cantigas de Santa Maria for soprano, alto, baritone and three instruments, 1949
• Little Music for Oboe, Strings and Timpani, 1949
• Musique pour trompette, violin and piano, 1949
• Introit et Tritychon for Organ, 1949
• String Quartet no.2, 1949
• Cantigas de Santa Maria for mixed chorus and organ, 1950
• Recitative och Koral for Violin and Piano, 1950
• Music för orgel, 1950
• Recitative och Koral for Violin, Strings and Piano, 1950
• Triptych for mixed choir, 1950
• Kammarmusik promote instrumenter 6, 1950
• Cantata for baritone and organ per defunctis, 1951
• Liturgia per organo, 1951-52
• Diptych (Tabu - Mana ), two ritual dances for flute, oboe, viola, celesta and harpsichord, 1951-52
• Giuoco del Cambio for flute, Enflischhorn, bass clarinet, vibraphone, harpsichord, piano and percussion, 1952-54
• Spectrogram for soprano, flute, vibraphone and percussion, 1953
• Antiphonies s rondes for soprano and orchestra, 1953
• Permutations and hymn for organ, 1953
• Gacelas y casidas de F. García Lorca for tenor, flute, English horn, bass clarinet, vibraphone, bells and drums, 1953
• Psalmus CXXII for soprano and organ, 1953
• Crystal sequence for soprano choir, two trumpets, vibraphone, bells, percussion and twelve violins, 1954
• Cercle for piano, 1955
• Composition för Studio II for vibraphone, bells, drums, piano, harpsichord and organ, 1955
• Double Pipe II for tape, 1955
• Fresque sonorous for tape, 1956-57
• Rota for three orchestral groups and tape, 1956-63
• Constellations I for organ, 1958
• Introduzione - Sequenze - Coda for three flutes, six percussionists and two amplifiers, 1958-59
• Visioner över en svensk folk visa for tape, 1959
• Segnali per strumenti a corda 7, 1959-60
• Microgram Seven Aphorisms for alto flute, viola and vibraphone, 1961
• Notazioni by clavicembalo ed altri strumenti, 1961
• Othello: Skådespelmusik, 1961
• Interference for Organ, 1961-62
• Bäckaskog: Skådespelmusik promote roaster och instrument, 1962
• Sergeant Musgrave dans: Skådespelmusik for trumpet, trombone and percussion, 1962
• Transfiguration per orchestra, 1962-63
• Nocturne because vecchi strumenti, 1963
• Rota II for tape, 1963
• Transit II for horn, trombone, electric guitar and piano, 1963
• Invenzione 1 ( Quartetto III), string quartet, 1964
• Responsorier for mixed choir, tenor, church bells and two organs, 1964
• Tetragon for tape, 1965
• Tre Hopi sånger for choir, xylophone and three toms, 1965
• Praeludium, Kyrie, Sanctus for two organs, solo singers, two choirs and church bells, 1966
• Tre pezzis per organo, 1966-67
• Motetum Archangeli Michaelis by chorum mixtum et organum, 1967
• Invenzione for Two Pianos, 1967-68
• Invenzione 2 for piano, 1968
• Klockspel for piano, 1968
• Experiment X: Church Opera for Soloists, orchestra and tape, 1968-69
• Rencontres pour orchester, 1968-71
• Nebulosa for Organ, 1969
• Nonsense for mixed choir, 1970
• Se människan Church Opera, 1970
• Pianissimo archived in due tempi per 20, 1970-72
• Invocation 1971
• Carillon ( Le Recital oublié ) for two pianos, 1972-74
• Toccata: Monumentum by Max Reger per organo, 1973
• Ricercare per organo, 1974
• Tides for tape, 1974
• Continuo - a partire since Pachelbel for Organ and Orchestra, 1974-75
• Icons for Organ, 1974-75
• Advent ( Veni Redemptor Gentium ) for organ, four Trompten, four trombones and percussion, 1975
• Extempore for Organ, 1975
• Ricordanza per orchestra, 1975-76
• Intrada: calls for tape, 1976
• Jeu de cinq for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, 1976
• Tornado on tape, 1976
• Antiphonie: Cathedral Music for Organ, 1977
• Parade for wind instruments and percussion, 1977
• Constellations IV for organ and percussion, 1978
• Sagan: A radio opera in 10 scenes, 1978-79
• Inductio for soprano, alto, mixed choir, three trumpets, three trombones, 1979
• Relief - haut et bas for two flutes, three horns, trombone, two drums and two double basses, 1979
• Strata for two oboes, two clarinets, two basset horns, two bassoons and four Hörnner, 1979-80
• I Capriccio by clavicembalo, 1980
• Livre d' orgue, 1981
• Voluntary on a Swedish hymn tune for organ from Dalecarlia, 1981
• Alpha - Omega for mixed choir and organ, 1982
• Constellations V for Organ, Mixed Choir and two reinforced solo sopranos, 1982-83
• Sheng for Oboe and Organ, 1983
• That Harmony for five cornets, flugelhorn, three horns, three trombones, euphonium, two tubas and drums, 1983
• La Passacaille errante - autour Haendel 1985 for organ, 1984
• Monologo per flauto solo, 1984
• Quodlibet re BACH for orchestra, 1984
• Tre intermezzi per pianoforte, 1984
• Pedalexercitium for Organ, 1985
• Trio sonata for accordion, trombone and prepared piano, 1985
• Variations sur un theme de Gilles Vigneault for Organ, 1985
• Symphonia sacra in tempore passionis, 1986
• Three dances for accordion and percussion, 1986
• Vortex per due pianoforti, 1986
• Mirrors for tape, 1987
• Apocalipsis cum figuris secundum Dürer 1498 for bass, mixed choir and organ, 1987
• Canvas (meta -music ) with mirrors for organ and tape, 1987
• Five psalms for mixed choir, 1987
• Après - Sheng for Organ, 1988
• Cadenza per organo grande, 1988
• Cinque studi canonici per due flauti, 1988
• Dos Recercadas para guitarra y violoncelo, 1988
• Echoes of loneliness: four choirs, 1988
• Night Music for Guitar and Percussion, 1988
• Litanies pour orchester, 1988-89
• Nazdar M. J. for eleven wind instruments and percussion, 1989
• Nocturnals: Incantation, Figures fugitives, Choros, 1989
• Tiento para oboe y tres tomtoms, 1989
• Loitsu: Incantation for soprano and piano, 1991
• Rondeau for Guitar, 1991
• Concert for piano and orchestra, 1992
• Missa pro organo: in memoriam Olivier Messiaen, 1992
• St. Michael's liturgy, 1992
• Meteoros for Organ, 1993
• Organum Sancti Jacobi, 1993
• Songs of the mountain, the moon and television for chorus and orchestra, 1993
• Due rapsodie for piano, 1994
• Triptyque pour orgue avec MIDI, 1994
• Sonate per cinque for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, 1994-95
• A solis ortus cardine: variations sur une hymne de noël du Ve siècle for Organ, 1995
• Concentio for wind ensemble and percussion, 1995
• Concerto per corno ed orchestra principale, 1995-96
• Klavidar, 1996
• Archipelago pour 15 musiciens - solistes, 1996-97
• FM 643 765 for organ, 1997
• Labyrinth: a concerto grosso for fifteen Strings, 1998
• Luke IV: 23-30 for mixed choir, organ and liturgist, 1998
• Riflessioni per organo grande, 1999
• Varianti by liuto, 2000