Helene Munktell - Symphonic Poem Bränningar

Helene Munktell

(24 November 1852 – 10 September 1919) was a Swedish composer.

Symphonic Poem Bränningar

Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester
Tobias Ringborg, conductor

(Swedish Radio broadcast of a performance at the Berwaldhallen, Stockholm on 9 June 2017)

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Gävle Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg (Conductor)

She was born in Grycksbo, Dalarna, into a wealthy family, the youngest of nine children of Henry and Augusta Munktell. Her mother lived separately in Stockholm and after her father died, the family moved there.

Munktell studied music at the Stockholm Conservatory with Conrad Nordqvist, Johan Lindegren, Ludwig Norman and Joseph Dente, and then in Vienna with Julius Epstein. She studied both piano and voice, and continued her education in composition in Paris with Benjamin Godard and Vincent d'Indy. Her debut as a composer took place in Sweden in 1885. She suffered from eye disease and died at the age of 67 in Stockholm.