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    Allan Pettersson

    Gustaf Allan Pettersson was a Swedish composer and violist. He is considered one of the 20th century's most important Swedish composers and was described as one of the last great symphonists, often compared to Gustav Mahler. His music can hardly be confused with other 20th-century works. In the final decade of his life, his symphonies developed an international following, particularly in Germany and Sweden. Of these, his best known work is Symphony No. 7. His music later found success in the United States. The conductors Antal Doráti and Sergiu Comissiona premiered and recorded several of his symphonies. Pettersson's song cycle Barefoot Songs influenced many of his compositions. Doráti arranged eight of the Barefoot Songs. Birgit Cullberg produced three ballets based on Pettersson's music. Pettersson studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's conservatory. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Gustaf Allan Pettersson[needs IPA] (19 September 1911 - 20 June 1980) was a Swedish composer and violist. He is considered one of the 20th century's most important Swedish composers and was described as one of the last great symphonists, often compared to Gustav Mahler. [1][2][3][4]: 3 [5] His music can hardly be confused with other 20th ...
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  4. britannica.com

    Allan Pettersson (born September 19, 1911, Uppsala, Sweden—died June 20, 1980, Stockholm) was a Swedish composer known as the creator of Barfotasånger ("Barefoot Songs"), a collection of 24 songs for voice and piano set to his own lyrics. He also wrote 16 symphonies, choral and chamber music, and a number of orchestral pieces.
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  5. classical.net

    Allan Pettersson occupies a lonely place in 20 th -century music - seemingly alienated from any "school", professing an empathy with criminals and outcasts, and using the tools of an earlier generation: symphonies, songs, and concerti. Yet, more than any composer of our time, he has been able to provide a musical testament of a spiritual longing faced with the existential void that we see in ...
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  7. eclassical.com

    Allan Pettersson (1911-80) was one of Sweden's greatest composers of symphonies. Towards the end of his life he received great critical success, and during the 1970s he was described in the press as 'the leading symphonist of our country, a world figure', as well as 'one of Scandinavia's greatest symphonists'. He began his musical career as a viola player, and during the 1940s ...
  8. musicinwords.free.fr

    Allan Pettersson is considered in Anglo-Saxon countries has the greatest Swedish composer, and is one of the few great composers of symphonies of the XXth century, with Gustav Mahler or Dimitri Shostakovich. Nevertheless, twenty years after his death, his work is rarely played and remain unknown outside Northern Europe and the USA.
  9. classicalmusicdaily.com

    Gustaf Allan Pettersson Swedish composer and viola player (Gustaf) Allan Pettersson was born on 19 September 1911 at Granhammar, Västra Ryd in Uppland. He grew up in poor and difficult circumstances in Stockholm. He studied violin, viola, counterpoint and harmony at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and later studied viola with Maurice Vieux in Paris and went on to play viola in the ...
  10. musicweb-international.com

    The music of Swedish twentieth-century symphonist Allan Pettersson can hardly be claimed to be generally familiar. This disc presents two of the seventeen symphonies, both written during the composer's fifties, in a volume that runs to approaching 83 minutes.
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