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One acquaintance later recalled his surprise when, on a journey by train from
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Solo songs: Jamtlandsminnen (Memories from
Jamtland) opus 4 (1893), Fyra visor i svensk folkton (Op. 5) including 'NÀr jag för mig sjÀlv i mörka skogen gÄr' and 'Bland skogens höga furustammar', Ur Fridolins visor (From the melodies of Fridolin) with words by E A Karlfeldt (1900), Ur Hösthorn (1928),
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near Ăstersund (where he spent his summers from 1914 and then lived permanently from 1930) is open to the public in the summer months and is much as the composer left it. The downstairs music hall has his grand piano (he was a competent pianist), a work room (with a âpicture windowâ looking out over
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and his followers. His progress was hindered by many enemies whom he made through his writings; he attacked showy virtuosity and dry academicism with satire but also with strict conscientiousness. For either composers or performers who did not conform to his taste (or who were young and insecure
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is still known to most Swedes, even to people generally uninterested in music: the majority of young piano students in the Nordic countries have been taught this piece. His songs for vocal ensemble are also still regularly performed, and are part of the core repertoire of
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Other writings include âSvensk musikkulturâ (Swedish musical culture, 1911) which includes clearsighted and satirical attacks on the prevailing musical establishment, âRichard Wagner som kulturföreteelseâ (Richard Wagner as a cultural phenomenon, 1913) as well as translations of
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Storsjön) and library (with his collection of books and scores), while upstairs the bedrooms may be viewed. He lived alone there with a butler and his cats. There is also a small café where books and CDs are sold.
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Haglund R. Peterson-Berger in The New Grove
Dictionary of Opera ed Sadie S. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.
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