Adolf Wiklund

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Adolf Wiklund (born June 5, 1879 in Värmland; died April 3, 1950 in Stockholm) was a Swedish composer and conductor. His father was an organist and he graduated from Royal College of Music, Stockholm as an organist and music teacher. After that he studied piano in Sweden and then in Paris due to a fellowship. His debut as a piano soloist came in 1902 playing his own composition. After 1911 he primarily worked as a conductor; he conducted the Swedish Royal Orchestra from 1911 to 1924, was director for the Royal Swedish Opera in 1923 and served as principal conductor of the Stockholm Concert Society until 1938.^[1]

Wiklund's compositions are generally Romantic and nationalistic in style, but his later works show influence from Impressionism. He composed little, but those he did have been important to Swedish music; his works include two piano concertos, a symphonic poem Sommarnatt och soluppgång, a symphony, and a violin sonata.^[2]

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1. ^ Swedish Music Information Center
2. ^ Bertil Wikland, "Adolf Wiklund". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan, 2001.