Lennart Hedwall

about

Born in Gothenburg on 16th September 1932. As a schoolboy he received organ lessons from Torsten Holmsten and, later, Gotthard Arnér. He took private lessons from Torsten Sörenson in the early 1950s, later becoming a pupil of Sven-Erik Bäck and Karl-Birger Blomdahl, while outside Sweden his teachers included Wolfgang Fortner, Ernst Krenek and Hanns Jelinek. He studied conducting with Tor Mann and Hans Swarowsky, piano with Carl Tillius, Olof Wibergh and Gottfrid Boon. He was conductor with Riksteatern 1958-1960, Stora Teatern, Gothenburg, 1962-1965, Stockholm Opera 1967-1968 and Örebro Orchestral Foundation 1968-1974. He taught at the Gothenburg College of Speech and Drama 1963-1967, and at its counterpart, now the School of Opera, in Stockholm 1968-1970 and from 1974 onwards. He is a familiar radio broadcaster in programmes on art songs or less-well-known Swedish music. He is also a perceptive music writer, his output includes books about Hugo Alfvén, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Birger Sjöberg and Swedish symphonies. For a number of years he was Curator of the Music Museum in Stockholm. He is much in demand as an accompanist, for both live productions and recordings. He was a member of the board of the Society of Swedish Composers 1969-1981 and is a Member of the Royal Academy of Music. Apart from the string quartet with which Lennart Hedwall made his début as a composer in 1950, his youthful output includes several compositions for organ. As a student he played the organ ever

top songs

albums

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Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare 2

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Agrell, Linde, Carlstedt, Börtz & Larsson: Works for Orchestra

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Hedwall: Canto

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Canto

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Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare (1918-1993)

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Fšreningen Svenska TonsŠttare 2

Contemporary Swedish: Concertos

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Almquvist: The Tone of my Spirit (Fria Fantasier for Piano-Forte)

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Contemporary Swedish Concertos

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Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare 1918-1993

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La Caraffa

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