Erik Bergman

Erik Valdemar Bergman (* November 24, 1911 in Nykarleby, † April 24, 2006 in Helsinki) was a Finnish composer.

Life

Bergman studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and thereafter at Heinz Tiessen in Berlin and with Wladimir Vogel in Ascona. Since 1963 he taught composition at the Sibelius Academy, next he worked until 1978 as a choral conductor.

Bergman was considered a pioneer of modern music in Finland. Because of his training, he was considered to be representative of the avant-garde; he built from, for example, learned with Wladimir Vogel Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.

He composed song cycles and choral works, cantatas, a violin concerto, works for piano and for organ, a guitar suite, a Chamber Concerto for flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, percussion and piano and other works of chamber musician.

His Requiem for a Dead Poets Society (1970) and Colori ed improvvisazioni for Orchestra ( 1973) made ​​internationally known composers.

1965 Bergman was awarded the Wihuri Sibelius Prize.

Works

• Requiem for a Dead Poets Society (1970 )
• Colori ed improvvisazioni (1973 )
• Three aspects of a dodecaphonic series
• Noa
• Aubade
• Icon
• Vicious
• Three Fantasies for Piano and Clarinet
• The Singing Tree, opera, ( 1988, first performance in German in 1995 )

• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Composer ( Finland)
• Support of the Finnish academics Award
• Finn
• Born in 1911
• Died in 2006
• Man