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 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). Provided by Wikipedia
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Sinfonia concertante för violoncell och orkester / by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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The Arctic Ocean ; Sinfonia breve ; Sinfonia seria by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Sinfonia del mare ; Sinfonia concertante by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Partita : för flöjt, stråkorkester och harpa = Partita for flute, string orchestra and harp / by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Teatersvit nr. 4 (Köpmannen i Venedig) = Theatre suite no. 4 (The merchant of Venice) by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Ishavet La mer arctique ; Concerto for viola and orchestra : 'Hommage à la France' ; Sinfonia concertante for cello and orchestra / by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Lent : för violoncell och piano / by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Som ett blommande mandelträd / by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Två sånger. by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Sinfonia espressiva Sinfonia seria / by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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From The tempest Songs by the sea ; Sinfonia del mare / by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Nystroem songs by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Sinfonia breve Sinfonia del mare / by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Sinfonia shakespeariana Sinfonia tramontana / by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Gösta Nystroem 100 år by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Sinfonia del mare by Nystroem, Gösta, 1890-1966
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Sinfonia concertante for violoncello and orchestra : 1940-44 /
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Sea pictures, op. 37 by Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934
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Festspel op. 25 ; Midsommarvaka, op.19 / by Alfvén, Hugo, 1872-1960
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