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Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (27 February 1867, Ullånger, Ångermanland – 3 December 1942, Östersund) was a Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Grieg, August Söderman and Wagner as well as Swedish folk idiom.〔Percy G. ''Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, An Introduction''. (Stockholm, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger Society) 1982.〕 ==The composer== Peterson-Berger studied at the Stockholm Conservatory from 1886–89 and then in Dresden for a year.〔Haglund R. "Peterson-Berger" in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' ed Sadie S. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.〕 He is best known for three albums of national romantic piano pieces entitled ''Frösöblomster I, II and III'' (''Flowers of Frösö''), which includes the often performed ''Vid Frösö kyrka'' (''At Frösö Church'') and ''Sommarsång'' (''Summer Song''). The sets, which were composed over a period of 18 years (1896 - 1914) and brought together afterwards as a collection have gained a reputation of representing a quintessential "Swedishness" in the romantic, nationalistic vein of their time. The most famous of the pieces, ''Sommarsång'' (''Summer Song'') recalls the warm, calm, harmonious and bright pre-summer evenings where the sun in the north almost never goes down; they were the great breakthrough for Wilhelm. ''Sommarsång'' is still known to most Swedes, even to people generally uninterested in music: the majority of young piano students in the Nordic countries have been taught this piece. His songs for vocal ensemble are also still regularly performed, and are part of the core repertoire of Swedish choirs. His other works include the five symphonies - among them are no.2 ''Sunnanfärd'' and no.3 ''Same-Ätnam'' generally considered the best - as well as the operas ''Ran'', ''Arnljot'', ''Domedagsprofeterna'' ("The Doomsday Prophets") and ''Adils och Elisiv'' ("Adils and Elisiv"). His command of the larger forms, in both architecture and instrumentation, is disputed. He was stage manager at the Stockholm Opera from 1908-10. The opera ''Arnljot'' has nevertheless become something of a symbol for the province of Jämtland and is regularly performed there, as a "musical drama", at Arnljotlägden on Frösön, close to Peterson-Berger's former home, Sommarhagen. ''Domedagsprofeterna'' is the antithesis of ''Arnljot'' – a light festive musical comedy set in 17th century Uppsala, while the saga ''Adils och Elisiv'' where Swedish ‘talsång’ (speechsong) attained its purest expression is a work extolling Peterson-Berger's belief in humanism and the goodness of man.〔 He also wrote about eighty songs, many of which set poems by Erik Axel Karlfeldt, for example ''Aspåkerspolska''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wilhelm Peterson-Berger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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