Sweden

7 articles related to Sweden:

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   Songwriter

   Hasta Mañana: the origins of the best ABBA ballad

   Hasta Mañana, an ABBA ballad released on their 1974 Waterloo album never quite managed to reach the top of…

   August 5, 2021

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   Orchestra

   Franz Berwald: iconic composer of Scandinavian Romanticism was forced to earn a living as an orthopedist

   Franz Berwald was a Swedish composer whose works were not particularly popular during his lifetime but who, decades…

   January 29, 2020

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   Orchestra

   The attractive sounds of Nordic Romanticism of Wilhelm Stenhammar

   Swedish pianist Wilhelm Stenhammar was one of the few composers who remained faithful to the ideas of Romanticism in…

   February 1, 2019

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   Collaboration

   Nordic folk fiddle reshapes polished classical sound in the music of Gjermund Larsen

   Gjermund Larsen is a Norwegian musician and composer who dedicated his career to the music of his native land. His work…

   December 18, 2018

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   Electric Guitar

   Swedish Rhapsody variations for electric guitar

   The painting Midsummer Eve bonfire on Skagen’s beach is a tribute to the artist colony in Skagen by Peder Severin…

   September 28, 2018

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   Violin

   Sweet little waltz from a traveling Swedish fiddler

   Early Swedish music was primarily characterized by ballads and kulning, songs typically sung by women for the purpose…

   June 12, 2018

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   Orchestra

   Famous Sibelius piece was commissioned for a plywood mill anniversary

   Jean Sibelius originally wrote Andante Festivo for a string quartet which was later made all the more luscious when he…

   May 13, 2018