So who are your favorite Scandinavian Composers? Those of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
Then Choose your most favorite from the poll.
Then Choose your most favorite from the poll.
Well, I suppose you can make Version 2 of this poll.Norman, Lumbye, Roman, Larsson and Svendsen are minor/very minor composers, whereas big names are missing - Pettersson, Rautavaara, Atterberg, Holmboe, Saariahoo, Valen, Langgaard ... or Nørholm, Bentzon, Ruders, Sørensen, Englund, Kokkonen, Merikanto, Melartin, Raitio, Gade, Tveitt etc. ...
We are talking about Scandinavian composers here, so no Finns allowed.Norman, Lumbye, Roman, Larsson and Svendsen are minor/very minor composers, whereas big names are missing - Pettersson, Rautavaara, Atterberg, Holmboe, Saariahoo, Valen, Langgaard ... or Nørholm, Bentzon, Ruders, Sørensen, Englund, Kokkonen, Merikanto, Melartin, Raitio, Gade, Tveitt etc. ...
Förklädd Gud is rather pastoral. But it's gorgeous. And the text is wonderful.Larsson excelled a lot in pastorals and a divertimento-like style, lacking intellectual weight. The "Förklädd Gud" might be an exception, I haven´t heard it. However I agree that calling him minor is probably an exaggeration, at least in a Swedish context, since he experienced with various styles, including serialism, at an early time in that country.
Overall you are right, but it´s not black-and-white. For instance, as regards the cultural, political and geographical similarities, The Nordic Council/Nordisk Råd as a means of rather close cooperation between the countries in many fields includes Finland and was established back in 1952. Projects concerning a Northern Political Union, also including Finland, were popular in Scandinavia in the later part of the 20th century as a possible alternative to European Union membership and still pop up regularly.Finns are ethnically, linguistically, historically and culturally very different from the neighbouring Scandinavians, who share a history, culture and have close ethnic and linguistic links.
Tell that to a Finn (I dare you!).So I unintentionally trolled you! :lol:
Finland is culturally-historically chained to Sweden (the prime country of Scandinavia) and so is part of Scandinavia.