Sweden mourns its doyen composer
mainIngvar 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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