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. ...
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.
Lots of love for the Scandinavian composers here, too. I can't help it that Nielsen's my favorite, but he's just the first among many greats.This is the hardest poll I've ever partaken in.
Grieg, Nielsen, Tveitt, Svendsen, Halvorsen. I love them all equally, almost.
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.