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Sandström, Sven-David (b.1942) |
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 Sven-David Sandström (1942) is a most prolific composer; his oeuvre encompasses some 200 works: chamber music, orchestral music, stage works, and vocal works. Sandström had his breakthrough with the vast orchestral work Through and Through, premiered in 1972 by the Swedish Radio Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt, subsequently performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1974, and Utmost for wind ensemble, performed by the BBC Symphony under Pierre Boulez in 1975. His modernist music from the 1960s and 70s uses serial techniques and is often dense and highly dissonant. The 1980s became a turning point, when he discovered an approach to composition that incorporated some of his earlier methods but also allowed him to achieve the joy of composing using a less modernist, even a tonal musical language. His solo concertos for Cello (1988) and Piano (1990) were instrumental in the launching of the romantic solo-concerto tradition in Swedish later twentieth-century Swedish music. His rhythmically centered music for percussion and dance dates from this period, and is the product of his collaboration with the Kroumata percussion ensemble and with late choreographer and dancer Per Jonsson. His work with Jonsson resulted in six ballets, including the successful Den elfte gryningen (The Eleventh Dawn, 1988). Like so many Swedish composers, Sandström considers vocal music to be a particularly important genre. Through his intense collaboration with the Swedish choral conductor Eric Ericson, Sandström developed his skill as composer of small and large-scale works for choir a cappella or with orchestra. In these contexts, he can explore the virtuosic, almost supernatural, abilities of a professional, highly trained choral instrument. During the last fifteen or so years Sandström has intensified this work and has been preoccupied with composing choral works, a cappella as well as works with orchestra, including masses – in particular, his monumental High Mass (1994) – Magnificat (2005), several motets, inspired by Bach, a Christmas Oratorio (2005), and the passion oratorio The Word (2004). Just completed is the opera, Batseba (2007), to be premiered in Stockholm in 2008. As an important educator—at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from the early 1980s until 1999, and at Indiana University, Bloomington, since 1999, as well as the founder of the composition school on the Baltic isle of Gotland—Sandström aspires to find and develop each student’s own artistic vision: He wants the student to draw upon his or her own experiences when composing; He emphasizes the important relationship between the composer and the musicians. By becoming a role model for the students he shows them how he thinks as a composer, and what the everyday life of a composer could look like. Composition is something essential and a serious and important undertaking. He believes a student has a greater chance of succeeding if he or she considers composition an indispensable part of life. For Sandström, the act of composition is more than self-expression; it is also self-purging. He has claimed that finishing his most expressive and controversial work to date, Requiem Mute the Bereaved Memories Speak (1979) was almost like a religious redemption after years of work. The Requiem deals with humankind’s ability to forget its crimes, and scenes from World War II are used to illustrate this point. “Sandström’s Requiem” is a monolith in Swedish music history and one of the most powerful and expressive compositions of the twentieth century. © Per F. Broman, 2007 Born in Borensberg on the 30th October, 1942. Between 1968 and 1972 Sandström studied composition with Ingvar Lidholm at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where guest professors such as György Ligeti and Per Nørgård also had an important influence on him. Sandström himself was a professor of composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from 1985 to 1995, after which he held the position of prorector at the College until 1998. From the autumn of 1999 he is Professor of Composition at the School of Music, Indiana University, USA. Tony Lundman. From the homepage of STIM/Swedish MIC |
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