Torbjorn lundquist biography of albert hall

Eventually he took piano lessons, later on from pianist and music critic Yngve Flyckt.

Torbjörn Lundquist was born in Stockholm on 30th of September He was a Swedish composer, conductor and musicologist.

These were the times when Stockholm had numerous cinemas, long before television made its entry in Sweden. Like so many other children, he made his pilgrimage to the weekend's matine shows, where the heroes were the likes of Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper and Charlie Chaplin. He was also captivated by jazz and during his school days he formed a jazz band, where he himself played the piano.

For a while he was also freelancing as a jazz pianist. Early, he realized that composing music was what he really wanted to devote himself to. He also started a chamber orchestra, which came to be engaged in the newly discovered Drottningholm Theater. At this point he also began composing seriously. The first result was a Divertimento for strings and four woodwind players in A few years later, he finished his Chamber Symphony, which had its first performance under the direction of conductor Sten Frykberg in The simple, strict form is entirely on a traditional basis, but the tonal language is alive and personal", writes Herbert Connor in his book Swedish Music The composition process often took long.

He then was active as a conductor in Stockholm, and also appeared as a guest conductor throughout Europe.

This is especially true of his eight symphonies. He has described this event himself: "At the end of the day, a composer becomes the slave of his themes; it's an expression that comes from Jean Sibelius and more and more I understand its meaning. My own music arise during slow processes, and I feel that the ideas have their own will, which I need to register carefully for the final work to be convincing.

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