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20th Century Late Romantic Swedish

LINDBERG, Oskar

Born in Gagnef, Dalarna, Feb 23, 1887
Died in Stockholm, April 10, 1955

  • Lindberg was an organist and teacher as well as a composer.
  • Lindberg was a conservatory professor of harmony and also taught high school music. He was instrumental in compiling a hymnal in 1939, which contained 14 of his original hymn compositions.
  • Style: Lindberg’s composition was influenced both by the late Romantic music of styles of Rachmaninoff and Sibelius, and by his own family heritage of folk music (he had peasant violinists in his ancestry).1

Sources

  1. Hans Åstrand, “Lindberg, Oskar,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 7, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000016678.

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