Gösta Nystroem

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Gösta Nystroem (October 13, 1890 – August 9, 1966) was a Swedish composer. Nystroem, originally Nyström, was born in Silvberg, 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. In his younger days, he 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 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 at the Swedish west coast in the 1930’s, where he also worked as a music critic. 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, to whom he got married 1921 in France. She died in 1946. In 1950 Nystroem got remarried to Helen Lyon, who, like Gladys Heyman, came from an upper class Gothenburg family. It should be said that Nystroem himself was never a rich man, even though his old-fashioned gentleman style fit very well into the society life. In Sweden, Nystroem was regarded a modernist in the 1930’s, but in today’s view, his music is 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 oft

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Nystroem: Ishavet / Viola Concerto / Sinfonia Concertante

Nystroem: Sinfonia del mare - Sinfonia breve

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Nystroem Songs

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Nystroem: Concerto for Strings Nos. 1 & 2

Nystroem: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5

Nystroem: The Tempest, Songs by the Sea, & Sinfonia del mare

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Watercolours . Swedish Songs

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Gosta Nystroem: 100 Ar

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Swedish Vocal Music

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Guldgodis / 30 bästa

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Nystroem: Symphony Nos. 4 and 6

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Pater Cælestis - Terra Mater - Vox Humana

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