Twenty-One - Corey Smith

STENHAMMAR (Karl Wilhelm Eugen (7 II 1871, Stockholm - 20 XI 1927, ibid.) - Swedish composer, conductor, pianist. Son is a Swede. composer Per Ulric S. (20 II 1828 - 8 II 1875). He studied at the Stockholm Conservatory under R. Anderson (fp.), With E. Sjogren and J. Dente (composition). He improved in Berlin with H. Barth (1892-93). Since 1897, conductor of the Stockholm Philharmonic. Orchestra, in 1907-22 - symph. Orchestra in Gothenburg, in 1924-25 - King. Opera in Stockholm. He was also known as a pianist and member of the Aulin Quartet. Creativity S. - creatures. contribution to the development of the Swede. musesculture. His symphonies, occupying an important place in nat. music and based on nar. melodies and rhythms, distinguished by intense thematic. development, polyphonic texture. S.'s interest in folklore is connected with the Swede. romanticism, the influence of which he experienced in his youth, along with the influence of R. Wagner, F. Liszt, I. Brahms. The most significant wok. productionS. - songs of pronounced lyric. character and choirs, as well as music for dramas. the plays of G. Ibsen, A. Strindberg, H. Bergman, W. Shakespeare, C. Gozzi and others.