Ingvar Lidholm

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Ingvar Natanael Lidholm (24 February 1921 – 17 October 2017) was a Swedish composer. Ingvar Lidholm was born in Jönköping. The actual family home was in Nässjö, some 40 kilometers to the southeast. Neither of his parents was particularly musical: his father worked for Swedish Railways and his mother was a homemaker. But the home environment was one in which music was encouraged. Ingvar was the youngest of four children, all of whom made music at home. The family owned a piano, and Lidholm began his "musical explorations" at an early age. By the age of eleven, Lidholm and his family had moved to Södertälje, which lies to the south of Stockholm. Both at school and at home, he rapidly began to develop his musical skills as a performer – and as a composer. By age twelve, he was writing songs in a tonal and romantic idiom, which led gradually to exercises of larger proportions, including music for full orchestra. This early period also included orchestration studies with Natanael Berg in Stockholm. Lidholm’s primary performance area was stringed instruments; he eventually studied and mastered all four instruments of the string family. As a gymnasium student, he played viola and contrabass in the school orchestra, and studied violin from the German master Hermann Gramss. He remained active in composition throughout his school years and completed what may be considered his final student work early in 1940: the Elegisk svit (“Elegiac Suite”) for string quartet. Several songs he wro

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albums

Lidholm: Choral Music

Lidholm: Orchestral Works 1944-1958

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Det korta livet/The Short Life - Rilkeensemblen

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A Spotless Rose: Nordic Christmas

The Swedish Cello

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Christmas Songs

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Debussy / Saint-Saens / Poulenc: French Beauties and Swedish Beasts

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The Swedish Chamber Choir: New Favourites

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Ett Dromspel

Swedish Tongues: An Anthology of Choirs (1900-1950)

Songs and Chamber Music

Lidholm: Orchestral Works 1958-1963

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