Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (27 February 1867, Ullånger, Ångermanland, Sweden — 3 December 1942, Östersund, Sweden) was a Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Grieg, August Söderman and Wagner as well as Swedish folk idiom.
Peterson-Berger studied at the Stockholm Conservatory from 1886-89 and then in Dresden for a year.
He is best known for three albums of national romantic piano pieces entitled Frö...
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Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (27 February 1867, Ullånger, Ångermanland, Sweden — 3 December 1942, Östersund, Sweden) was a Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Grieg, August Söderman and Wagner as well as Swedish folk idiom.
Peterson-Berger studied at the Stockholm Conservatory from 1886-89 and then in Dresden for a year.
He is best known for three albums of national romantic piano pieces entitled Frösöblomster I, II and III (Flowers of Frösö), which includes the often performed Vid Frösö kyrka (At Frösö Church) and Sommarsång (Summer Song). The sets, which were composed over a period of 18 years (1896 - 1914) and brought together afterwards as a collection have gained a reputation of representing a quintessential "Swedishness" in the romantic, nationalistic vein of their time. The most famous of the pieces, Sommarsång (Summer Song) recalls the warm, calm, harmonious and bright pre-summer evenings where the sun in the north almost never...
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