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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Thanks for flagging this up. Great memories of his advice when I studied with him in Stockholm in 1971 and so glad I met up with him again at his 90th birthday concert there. I hope we hear more of his music in Britain.
What happened between this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVlyXh87b1g
…. and what the video up there presents?
Two world wars, Schönberg, and the ongoing addition to the world’s ugliness and inhumanity.