Hilding Rosenberg
Hilding Rosenberg ( June 21, 1892 in Bosjökloster; † 19 May 1985 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish composer and conductor.
Life
Since 1909 he was organist in Kalmar and then worked as a concert pianist, teacher, and briefly as a church musician. From 1914 he studied piano with Richard Andersson, and later composition with Ernst Henrik Ellberg and Wilhelm Stenhammar and studied conducting with Kurt Striegler and Hermann Scherchen. From 1932 to 1934 he served as conductor of the Opera of Stockholm. After that he worked as a guest conductor in many European countries and in the USA. Among his students Birger Blomdahl Karl, Sven -Erik Bäck, Ingvar Lidholm and Åke Hermanson.
Rosenberg composed seven operas, opera oratorio (Joseph and his brothers, 1946-1948 ), seven ballets, four oratorios, two melodramas, seven symphonies and other symphonic works, two violin, a cello and a Tromp ducks concert, drama, radio play - and film music, chamber music, piano and organ pieces, songs and choral works.