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This page will emerge gradually as I find relevant texts. Texts concerning individual works can be found in the large worklist and won't be included here.
Per Olov Broman: "Hilding Rosenberg", 191 pages in Swedish. The first book in Atlantis' and the Swedish Royal Academy of Music's series "Svenska tonsättare". A chronological survey of Rosenberg's life and works mainly aimed at the layman. Also includes chapters on Rosenberg's views on Tradition, Message and Craft, worklists, guides to further reading and listening. Number 107 in "Kungl. Musikaliska Akademiens skriftserie". ISBN 978-91-7353-138-2. Recommended!
Gerd Schönfelder's 1991 study "Revelations of new music. Hilding Rosenberg: Johannes Uppenbarelse (Symphony No. 3 [sic!])", pages 28-57 in his and Hans Åstrand's book "Contemporary Swedish Music through the Telescopic Sight", nine analytical studies, published 1993 by Edition Reimers. In English. ISBN 91 7370 110 6. Schönfelder considers that movements 3-7 of Johannes Uppenbarelse form a symphony, while movements 1-2 and 8 sets an oratorio frame. "The third and fourth movements relate to each other as the exposition and development in the main movement of a sonata form."
Herbert Connor's book "Svensk musik, 2. Från Midsommarvaka till Aniara" (p1977, ISBN 91-0-041778-5, 528 pages in Swedish) contains a 42 pages long chapter on HR. Good introduction!
Sven-David Sandström's "Hilding Rosenberg som kompositör i 1920-talets Stockholm", a paper for the Stockholm University the spring 1967. 112 pages in Swedish with a detailed analysis of Rosenberg's second string quartet, presentation of other pieces from the twenties, critic's reception etc. Recommended.
Den europeiske Rosenberg (in Swedish), a 48
page booklet issued by Stockholms Konserthusstiftelse1997, ISBN
91-630-5634-4. Includes a large article by Bo Wallner (Tre korta
kapitel om stråkkvartetter, Hilding Rosenberg och musiklivet i
Stockholm) and short ones by Daniel Börtz, Ingvar Lidholm and
Mats Widlund, a poem by Johannes Edfelt, a short biography, a
short worklist and some pictures. Issued for the festival
1997-1999 with all the 14 Rosenberg quartets played at the
Stockholm Concert Hall.
Bo Wallner's article was also republished with the title
"Kvartetter från fyra decennier" in his collection of
essays, "Profiler", issued in 2002 by the Royal Swedish
Academy of Music, ISBN 91-89038-24-X.
Björn Martinson; the dissertation "Hilding Rosenbergs apokalyps. Studier i Johannes Uppenbarelse - ett musikverk i stridsrustning" (Bokbox Förlag 1999). ISBN 91-86980-50-5. A deep study of the fourth symphony, or rather "symphonic oratorio" as it doesn't live up to Rosenberg's own 1944 definition of a symphony: "motives and themes organic growth to a greater orchestral context". Martinson describes the harmony in Rosenberg's pieces cirka 1934-45 as "substance-affinitive", more vertically oriented than the horizontally oriented music from the twenties. Main text in Swedish, Summary (16 pages) and Abstract (also at http://www.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=12588&postid=19362) in English. Recommended with enthusiasm!
Per Olov Broman; the dissertation "Kakofont storhetsvansinne eller uttryck för det djupaste liv? Om ny musik och musikåskådning i svenskt 1920-tal, med särskild tonvikt på Hilding Rosenberg" (2000). ISBN 91-554-4775-9. Deals with Rosenberg's (and some other avantgardists) aesthetics during the twenties. Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy and Ernst Kurth's Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunkts (1917) seems to have been influential on Rosenberg. Main text in Swedish, Abstract in English (also at http://publications.uu.se/theses/abstract.xsql?isbn=91-554-4775-9) and Zusammenfassung in German. Recommended with enthusiasm!
Bo Wallner's article "Hilding Rosenberg" in volume 4 of "Musiken i Sverige", Fischer & Co. 1994. A 17-pages introduction and overview in Swedish.
Carl-Gunnar Åhlén; the booklet to the 3 cd-box Rosenberg plays Rosenberg (Caprice 21510) contains a biography (Swedish and English), a worklist and a listing of Rosenberg's appearances as conductor, pianist and organist 1922-62. Recommended with enthusiasm!
Hilding Rosenberg; the memoirs "Toner från min örtagård", Natur och Kultur 1978. ISBN 91-27-00876-2. Manuscript edited by Karin Jacobsson. Some photos. Only in Swedish. Recommended!
En bok till Hilding Rosenberg 21/6 1977. Kungliga Musikaliska Akademiens skriftserie nr 19, 1977. ISBN 91-85428-05-1. Includes Tabula gratulatoria (for HR:s 85th birthday), poems, prose, drawings, short compositions by Holmboe, Bäck, Lidholm & Börtz, a large essay by Bo Wallner on Orpheus in Town, other's memories of HR etc. Also the worklist compiled by Peter Lyne. Recommended!
Göran Bergendal: there's an 8 page chapter (general introduction) on HR in his book "Moderna tonsättarprofiler" (only in Swedish), published 1967.
Alf Thoor: "Rosenberg vid mellersta rikets slut", a chapter (14 pages) in Thoor's book "Tio bilder till musiken" (only in Swedish), published 1978, ISBN 91 514 0092 8.
Anders Edling: "Franskt i svensk musik 1880-1920. Stilpåverkan hos parisstuderande tonsättare och särskilt hos Emil Sjögren", a dissertation (in Swedish, with a French summary) on French influences on Swedish composers studying in Paris between 1880 and 1920. The text on Rosenberg is 9 pages. There's also a 3-page interview with Rosenberg. Edling finds a few French influences in some pieces from the twenties. ISBN 91-554-1251-3, published in 1982 by Almqvist & Wiksell, 337 pages.
Bo Wallner: "Rosenberg, Hilding Constantin" (in Swedish) ur Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon, band 30, pages 469-.475, written 1998.
Bo Wallner: "Rosenberg och det grekiska" (in Swedish) ur Kungliga Vitterhets-, historie- och antikvitetsakademiens årsbok 1986, pages 71-78.
Christina Tobeck's Karl-Birger Blomdahl-dissertation from 2002 (ISBN 91-85974-70-6, in Swedish), includes a chapter on Rosenberg's oratorios. Part 2, pages 137-160. There's also other information on HR spread throughout the 2 books. Recommended with enthusiasm!
Musikrevy No 2 1982: 10 pages on HR, with
these articles (in Swedish);
Zagorka Zivkovic "Tankar och samtal kring Hilding
Rosenberg": on the relation between HR and Sven-Erik Bäck,
Daniel Börtz, Bo Wallner and Mats Zetterquist,
Lennart Reimers "Hilding Rosenberg som musikalisk
förlossare": on HR's ability as a teacher to help his
students find their own voice, not create mere followers,
Lennart Hedwall "Hilding Rosenbergs orgelmusik": a
thorough presentation of the five organ pieces that were know at
that time,
Gunnar Sjöqvist: "Rosenberg på skiva": a short
presentation of the recordings then available.
Göran Bergendal's article/interview "Samtal med örtagårdsmästare" (4 pages in Swedish) in Musikrevy no 5 1967.
Bengt Johnsson's article "Hilding Rosenbergs klavermusik" (4 pages in Danish) in Musikrevy no 4 1962 on the piano music.
Bo Wallner's article "Rosenbergiana" (5 pages in Swedish) in Musikrevy no 4 1962 on "Allt som har sovit under vintern", the Wind Quintet, Solo flute sonata and Solo clarinet sonata.
Lennart Hedwall's book "Den svenska symfonin" (p1983, ISBN 91-20-06932-4, 426 pages in Swedish) contains 9 pages on HR:s symphonies.
Bo Wallner's article "Tidens oro. Ur ett kapitel om Hilding Rosenberg och 1930-talets svenska musikliv" (7 pages in Swedish) in Studia Musicologica Norvegica 1999. On Järnålder (Iron Age, 1937), Swedish composers relations to Nazi-Germany etcetera.
Daniel Börtz' article "Hilding Rosenberg - minnen" (7 pages in Swedish) in "Tonsättare om tonsättare", a book issued by Edition Reimers 1993, ISBN 91 7370 108 4. Some of Börtz personal memories of Rosenberg, as a distant relative, composition teacher and older composer colleague.
Hilding Rosenberg's article "Wilhelm Stenhammar. En minnesbild" (2 pages in Swedish) in "Musikmänniskor", no 24 in "Hågkomster och livsintryck", Uppsala 1943.
Bo Wallner's article "Rosenberg möter Stenhammar" (in Swedish) in the magazine Artes No 2 1987. 9 pages on HR's studies for Wilhelm Stenhammar. The text is also included in Wallner's Stenhammar biography, part 3 pages 492-504.
Bo Wallner's article "Oratoriet hos Honegger och Rosenberg" (in Swedish) in the magazine Prisma No 5-6 1950. 5 pages of text, 3 pages of note examples.
Göran Bergendal's book "33 svenska komponister" (in Swedish) from 1972, ISBN 91-32-40374-7 includes a chapter (10 pages) on HR. Good introduction, a discography and a short bibliography.
Bo Wallner's article "Melodiken i Hilding Rosenbergs senaste instrumentalverk. En introduktion" (in Swedish) in the magazine Ord och bild 1952, where five types of melodies are identified in Rosenberg's music. 5 pages of text, 3 pages of note exemples.
Bo Wallner's article "Den långa resan. Fyra kapitel om 90-åringen Hilding Rosenberg, hans liv och verk" (in Swedish) in Tonfallet No 7 1982.
Hilding Rosenberg's article "Per Lindberg och den skapande musikern" (13 pages in Swedish) in "En bok om Per Lindberg" (Wahlström & Widstrand 1944); on their theatrical projects.
Bo Wallner's article "Rosenberg och 20-talet. Ett avsnitt ur ett kapitel och en bok på väg" in Nutida Musik Nos 4/1971-2 and 1/1972-3 (in Swedish) on the twenties, the music and the critics reception of it. It also includes an extensive list of known performances of HR's music 1916-1931,
Nutida Musik no 4 1961-2 contains three articles by Bo Wallner (only in Swedish); five pages a gathering of quotes from HR 1927-61, most of them known from other sources and the memoirs, seven pages on the concerti and riflessioni, five pages on the sixth string quartet,
Bo Wallner's article on the string quartets: "Kammarmusikalisk sammanfattning" (in Swedish) in Nutida Musik Nos 1 and 2 1958-59, also presentations of quartet 7 (no 2/58-9), 8 (no 3/58-9), 9 (no 5/58-9), 10 (no 6/58-9), 11 (no 1/59-60), 12 (no 3/59-60). The main articles also in German in Musik in Schweden Musikrevy International 1959 and in Dansk Musiktidskrift No 3 1960 (in Danish?).
Musikrevy No 4 1992: a special Rosenberg
issue (28 pages, in Swedish) with these articles;
Bo Wallner: "Hilding Rosenbergs Concerti",
Nils L Wallin: "Hilding Rosenbergs 'Johannes
uppenbarelse'",
Bengt Hambraeus: "Stumfilm och hörspel, en infallsvinkel
på Hilding Rosenberg som musiker och människa",
Gunnar Sjöqvist: "Han är även en skånsk
angelägenhet",
Erik Lundkvist: "Född med orgelton i skallen...",
Gunnar Sjöqvist: "Rosenbergs stråkkvartetter i
jubileumsbox",
Anders Tykesson: "Den heliga natten - en klingande
julkrubba",
Joakim Andersson: "Hilding Rosenberg och 50-talet",
Lennart Hedwall: "Symfonikern som miniatyrist. Om Hilding
Rosenbergs romanser",
Per F Broman: "Hilding Rosenbergs blåsmusik".
Check if your library still has it! It's a good introduction!
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