Sweden mourns its doyen composer

Sweden mourns its doyen composer

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norman lebrecht

October 23, 2017

Ingvar Lidholm died on October 17 at the age of 96.

Rooted in folk music, he embraced Schoenberg-style serialism in the 1950s before finding his own particular voice with Nausikaa and Poesis in the following decade.

He was widely recorded on Swedish labels.

with Herbert Blomstedt. photo: Arne Hyckenberg/Sveriges Radio

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