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About Gösta Nystroem
- Gösta Nystroem (Silvberg, 13 October 1890 – Särö, 9 August 1966) was a Swedish composer. Nystroem, originally Nyström, was born in Silvberg, Sweden, a parish in the province of Dalarna, but spent most of his childhood in Österhaninge near Stockholm, at the time a small village but nowadays a suburban district.
- His father was a headmaster and an organist.
- In his younger days, Nystroem was both a composer and a painter (one of the first Swedish Cubists), but when he was about thirty years old, he eventually decided to focus on music. He studied composition in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Paris.
- Among his teachers in Paris were Vincent d'Indy and Leonid Sabaneyev.
- After living in France, mostly in Paris, for several years, he moved to Gothenburg on the Swedish west coast in the 1930s, where he also worked as a music critic at Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning.
- In 1934-36 he also worked as the curator at Göteborgs Konsthall.
- In the 1950s he settled in Särö, a rather wealthy village about twenty kilometres south of Gothenburg, where he had a house that originally belonged to the family of his first wife, Gladys Heyman, whom he married in 1921 in France.
- The couple had three daughters.
- Gladys died in 1946, and in 1950 Nystroem got remarried to Helen Lyon, who, like Gladys Heyman, came from an upper class Gothenburg family.In Sweden, Nystroem was regarded as a modernist in the 1930s, but in today's view, his music is only moderately modernistic.
- It is influenced by the French music of the time of his studies, but still has a Nordic, romantic tone, and is most often melancholic or sorrowful.
- As a person and artist Nystroem was dependent on the sea and preferred to live close to it.Among Nystroem's most appreciated works are his romances.
- The most widely known collections are Sånger vid havet (Songs by the sea, with orchestra or piano, 1942), På reveln (At the reef, with piano, 1948) and Själ och landskap: nya sånger vid havet (Soul and landscape: new songs by the sea, with piano, 1950).
- The poet apparently closest to Nystroem's soul was the Swedish female writer Ebba Lindqvist (1908-1995).
- They shared a deep relationship with the sea.
- Five settings to music of Lindqvist's poems are to be found in the romance collections mentioned above.Nystroem composed six symphonies.
- Among these, Sinfonia espressiva (1932–37) and Sinfonia del mare (1946–48) are considered to be the best.
- Sinfonia espressiva grows from a slow first movement scored for strings and timpani.
- In the second and third movements, groups of wind instruments and percussion are added, and only the finale is scored for full orchestra.
- The sea symphony, Sinfonia del mare, is written in one continuous movement, picturing different moods inspired by the sea.
- It is Nystroem's most popular work and might be said to have overshadowed other important works in his output.
- In the middle of the symphony is a section where a soprano sings a setting of Lindqvist's poem "Det enda" ("The one") about a person who has fled from the sea, "as one flees from the beloved", but who will soon return to "sit by the sea and know it's the one on earth".
- Nystroem's other symphonies, seldom played, are Sinfonia breve (1929–31), Symphony No.
- 4 (1952, originally entitled Sinfonia shakespeariana), Sinfonia seria (1962–63), and Sinfonia tramontana (1965).
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