프란츠 베어발트
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Franz Berwald, in full Franz Adolf Berwald, (born July 23, 1796, Stockholm, Swed.—died April 3, 1868, Stockholm), the most important Swedish composer of the 19th century.
스웨덴 낭만파 음악가. 그의 작품은 그의 생전에 잘 알려지지 못했다. 원래 성형외과 의사였으며 나중에는 목재공장과 유리공장을 운영했기 때문이었다.
이름에서 알 수 있듯 독일 계통이다. 바이올리니스트이면서 작곡가인 베어발트는 그의 생전동안에는 빛을 보지 못하였으나 오늘날에는 19세기 스웨덴을 대표하는 작곡가로 인정받고 있다. 그의 대표작은 4개의 교향곡이다. 그러나 오페라에도 재능을 보여 스웨덴의 야담과 실화를 중심으로 4편의 오페라를 작곡했다. . 그러나 현재는 그의 작품들이 재인식되어 19세기뿐만 아니라 스웨덴 역사에 있어서 대표적인 작곡가로 추앙받고 있다.
Theme and Variations for violin & orchestra
1. Introduzione. Andantino con variazione
2. Variazione 1
3. Variazione 2
4. Variazione
5. Variazione 4
6. Poco allegretto
Johannes Lorstad, violin
Malmo Opera Orchestra
Niklas Willén, conductor
Born into a renowned family of musicians, Berwald studied violin with his father and composition with J.B.E. Du Puy. After playing in the Swedish court orchestra and touring as a violinist for about 15 years, he lived in Berlin (1829–41) and Vienna (1842). He then returned to Sweden, and from 1846 to 1849 he was in Paris and Vienna, where he attempted to make a name for himself as a composer. He was unable to earn a living in music, however, and from 1850 to 1858 he managed a glassworks in Ångermanland. After scoring a certain success with his opera Estrella de Soria (first performed 1862), he became professor of composition at the Swedish Royal Academy of Music in 1867.
Berwald is considered the founder of musical Romanticism in Sweden and was the first important Swedish symphonist. His music, somewhat influenced by Louis Spohr and Carl Maria von Weber, is highly original in its formal construction and use of harmonic resources. His works include five cantatas; concerti for violin (1821), bassoon (1827), and piano (transcribed by Gustaf Heintze, 1908); and four symphonies composed in the 1840s, of which the third, Sinfonie singulaire (1845), is particularly esteemed.