Ingvar Lidholm

Ingvar Lidholm ( born February 24, 1921 in Jönköping ) is a Swedish composer.

Lidholm studied at the Music Academy of Stockholm violin and orchestra administrator as well as Hilding Rosenberg composition. He completed his training in Italy, France and Switzerland. 1947 to 1956 he was conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Örebro. Until 1965 he headed the chamber music department of the Swedish Radio, after which he worked from 1965 to 1975 as a professor of composition at the Academy of Music in Stockholm.

Lidholm composed an opera, and a television opera, orchestral works, chamber music, cantatas, choruses and songs.

Works

  • Toccata e Canto, 1944
  • Sonata for solo flute, 1945
  • Piano Sonata, 1947
  • Music for Strings, 1952
  • Concerto for flute, oboe, English horn and cello, 1954
  • Four Pieces for Cello and Piano, 1954
  • Canto LXXXI to a text by Ezra Pound
  • The night of the poet to a text by Carl Jonas Love Almquist, 1958
  • Riter ( rites ) for ballet, orchestra and tape, 1959
  • Mutanza, 1959
  • Motus - Colores, 1960
  • Poesis, 1963
  • Nausicaa alone on a text by Eyvind Johnson, 1963
  • Holländarn ( The Dutchman by August Strindberg ), television opera, 1967
  • Riveder ... a le stelle, 1973
  • Kontakion, 1973
  • Greetings from an Old World, 1976
  • Ett drömspel ( A Dream Play by August Strindberg ), opera, 1992

Awards

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