For those fans of Scandinavian music for whom Sibelius is too austere, Nielsen is too muscular, Stenhammar is too severe, and Alfvén is too sexy, there's Kurt Atterberg. Younger than any of the others, Atterberg is by far the most conservative whose music was born in the fin de siècle and rarely left home. He started ploughing his furrow in 1910 with his neo-Romantic Symphony No. 1 in B minor and was still at it nearly 50 years later with his neo-Romantic Symphony No. 9 Sinfonia Visionaria from 1956. Neither of those ...
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For those fans of Scandinavian music for whom Sibelius is too austere, Nielsen is too muscular, Stenhammar is too severe, and Alfvén is too sexy, there's Kurt Atterberg. Younger than any of the others, Atterberg is by far the most conservative whose music was born in the fin de siècle and rarely left home. He started ploughing his furrow in 1910 with his neo-Romantic Symphony No. 1 in B minor and was still at it nearly 50 years later with his neo-Romantic Symphony No. 9 Sinfonia Visionaria from 1956. Neither of those works nor any of those in-between will appeal much to fans of Sibelius' Seventh or Nielsen's Fifth or Stenhammar's Second or Alfvén's Fourth: there will be too much wet-eyed sentimentality, too much tub-thumping rhetoric, too much mind-numbing banality to be anything but a guilty pleasure. But for fans of Sibelius' Finlandia or Nielsen's Nearer My God to Thee or Stenhammar's Swedish Rhapsody or Alfvén's The Lord's Prayer, Atterberg's symphonies will be just the thing. Clearly, Ari...
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