Swedish Rhapsody No. 2, Op. 24: Uppsala Rhapsody

Composer: ALFVÉN, Hugo
  • Written in 1907
  • Subtitle: “Academic Festive Overture”1
  • The piece was created from several popular Swedish student songs and written for an academic celebration (much like Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture).2

Sources

  1. Rolf Haglund, “Alfvén, Hugo,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 10, 2023, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000000556.
  2. Frederick K. Smith, Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium (Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2002), 82.

Cut IDs

40986 42098