Hallnäs, Hilding - Music for Piano Solo - Amsö, Jörgen
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Hilding Hallnäs
Music for Piano Solo
From the booklet:
This is an anthology with selected piano music by the Swedish composer Hilding Hallnäs, celebrating the centenary of his birth. It is also a tribute to the career of Jörgen Amsö as a pianist for more than sixty years.
Hilding Hallnäs (1903 - 1984)
Hilding Hallnäs was born in Halmstad, on the west coast of Sweden, where he took his upper secondary school certificate in 1923. The following year he started studying at the College of Music in Stockholm, with Gustav Hägg and Otto Olsson as teachers. At the College of Music he graduated as an organist and Master of Music. Hallnäs then went abroad to study the organ for A. Cellier in Paris and composition for H. Grabner in Leipzig. In 1933 he took office as organist in the Parish of Johanneberg in Göteborg, a post he held until his retirement in 1968. Hallnäs also taught theory of music at the Göteborg Orchestra School until 1951. From 1957 to 1972 he was Programme Director and Vice-Chairman of "Levande musik" (Living Music), a musical society in Göteborg, and at the same time Chairman of the Göteborg Composers' Society. Hallnäs was a member of the Musical Academy from 1952. A few years after retirement, Hilding Hallnäs and his wife, Gun, the well known actress, settled in Stockholm.
Hallnäs started composing early, at first in a general Nordic tradition. His time at the College of Music served primarily as a platform for new musical investigation, via French impressionism (such as Divertimento, opus 9) to German expressionism (Vier Goethe-Lieder, 1934), where much of his work shows kinship with his contemporaries, Dag WirÈn and Lars-Erik Larsson. The war years were musically unproductive and it was not until the end of the forties that a newly-fledged composer was heard again. Hallnäs' musical base had by then become more radical and in the fifties he incorporated dodecophany (e.g. Metamorfosi Sinfoniche, 1953/55) and point fracture. In his musical work - Rapsodia, 1963 (dedicated to Nelson Mandela) his early commitment to global issues started, a commitment that reached a peak with the orchestral work "En grekisk saga", 1967 (A Greek Tale) - a tribute to the resistance movement of the Greek revolution. Hallnäs was also instrumental in the modernisation of the guitar as a classical instrument in Sweden. From the fifties and onwards he wrote over twenty solo and chamber works for the guitar. For his own instrument, the organ, he wrote several important works, such as Musica Dolorosa. Hallnäs' opus list contains several symphonies and orchestral concerto works, a large number of chamber music compositions and vocal music in various settings.