Dag Wirén

Dag Wirén (born 15 October 1905 Striberg, † April 19, 1986 in Danderyd ) was a Swedish composer.

Wirén studied from 1927 to 1931 at the College of Music Stockholm composition with Ernst Ellberg, Piano Olaf Wibergh and conducting with Olallo Morales. During these years the first string quartets, piano sonatas, violin sonatas and cello sonata came. He belonged to the group of composers of the thirties, together, inter alia, with Lars -Erik Larsson, Gunnar de Frumerie and Erland von Koch. This group of independent individuals had as common a preference for Neoclassicism, freed from romantic influences.

1931 to 1934 in Paris, he studied orchestration with Leonid Sabaneyev. Here Wirén completed his First Symphony, which he never released to the performance. In 1934 he settled with his wife, an Irish cellist in Stockholm and in 1935 a member of the Swedish Composers' Union and its librarian, from 1947 to 1963 he was its vice-president.

Since 1938 he worked as a music critic at Svenska Morgonbladet. Since 1946 he lived in Danderyd as a freelance composer. In this year he also became a member of the Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm. In 1936 he wrote his Cello Concerto, Op 10, 1939 his Symphony No. 2, 1944, the Symphony No. 3, 1948, the Violin Concerto Op 23 In 1948 Wirén was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. In 1952 his Symphony No. 4, his last in 1964, the 5th Symphony. His last work is the Concertino for flute and orchestra, Op 44, written in 1972 and premiered in 1974. In 1968 he was awarded the art prize of Örebro, 1975 Atterberg Prize, in 1978 the medal ' Artibus et Litteris '.

He composed two operettas, five symphonies, a divertimento and a triptych for orchestra, chamber music and piano pieces. Become particularly well known Wiréns Serenade for String Orchestra, Op 11