Gösta Nystroem
Gösta Nystroem ( born October 13, 1890 in Silvberg, community Sater; † August 9, 1966 in Varberg, Halland County ) was a Swedish composer and painter.
Life
Gösta Nystroem ( original spelling " Nystrom " ) was born in the Swedish historic province of Dalarna, but spent most of his childhood in Österhaninge in Stockholm, then a small village, today suburb. He received his first music lessons from his father, an elementary school teacher and organist. Nystroem studied in Stockholm (including Andreas Hallén ) and from 1915 to 1919 in Copenhagen ( where he met Carl Nielsen ).
During this time Nystroem worked both as a composer and as a painter. As the latter, he took suggestions from Braque, Picasso and de Chirico, and became one of the first Swedish Cubists. It was not until about thirty years old, he decided to concentrate on the music.
For further study Nystroem moved to Paris. There were Vincent d' Indy and Leonid Sabaneyev his teachers. After he had, mainly, spent twelve years in France, in Paris, he moved to Gothenburg in 1931, and worked as a freelance composer and music critic. In the 1950s he moved to Särö, a wealthy town about 20 kilometers south of Gothenburg, and lived in a house that originally belonged to his first wife's family. Gladys Heyman, who he married in 1921 in France, died in 1946. Nystroem 1950 married Helen Lyon, which, as already came his first wife, from the Gothenburg upper class. Nystroem itself was never rich, but used in adapting to the social life of a somewhat old-fashioned " gentleman's style ".
Work
After starting out under the influence of his Scandinavian contemporaries (eg Sibelius) grabbed Nystroem during his time in France, the local contemporary trends on ( Impressionism, Les Six, Expressionism ). His later personal style is influenced by Honegger also neoclassical characteristics and resembles in many respects to Arnold Bax, but also to Hindemith. In Sweden in the 1930s Nystroem was considered modernist. Nystroem felt strong from the sea dressed and was inspired in many of his works by his moods.
To Nyströms most appreciated works include his song cycles. The best-known collections were Sånger vid havet ( Songs by the sea, in 1942, with orchestra or piano), På reveln ( At the reef, in 1948, with piano) and själ och landskap: nya sånger vid havet ( soul and landscape: new songs by the sea, 1950, with piano). Five texts of these collections come from Nyströms favorite poet, the Swedish writer Ebba Lindqvist (1908-1995), with whom he shared his love of the sea.
Nystroem wrote six symphonies, of which apply the second espressiva Sinfonia ( 1935-37 ) and the 3rd Sinfonia del mare ( 1947-48 ) as the outstanding. The Sinfonia espressiva begins with a slow first movement, which is scored for strings and timpani. In the second and third set of brass bands and percussion are in addition, and only in the finale the full orchestra is used. The Sinfonia del mare consists of a continuous tax rate that reflects various moods sea. In the heart of the work is the sung by the soprano poem " Det enda " ( The One ) by Lindqvist. Nyströms more symphonies, the Sinfonia breve ( 1929-31 ), Symphony No. 4 (1952, originally titled Sinfonia shakespeariana ), Sinfonia seria (1963) and Sinfonia tramontana (1965 ) are rarely played.
Nystroem also wrote incidental music, the tone poem La mer arctique ( 1924-25 ), two Concertos for Strings (No. 1 was built in 1930, No. 2 1955), a Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra (1944 ), a Partita for Flute, Strings and harp (1953 ) as well as concertos for violin (1954 /57), Viola ( Hommage à France, 1940) and Piano (Concerto ricercante, 1959). He also composed chamber music, opera Herr Arnes Penningar (1958, after a novel by Selma Lagerlöf ) as well as some film scores.