Bengt Hambraeus

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Bengt Hambraeus (b. Stockholm, Sweden, January 29, 1928; d. Glen Roy Apple-Hill, near Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 21, 2000) was a Swedish organist, composer and musicologist.

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[edit] Life

Hambreaus studied organ with Alf Linder and musicology with Carl-Allan Moberg, earning his doctorate in 1956. From 1957 to 1972 he worked in the music department of the Swedish Radio.

In 1972 he became professor of composition at McGill University, Montreal and he remained in Canada until his death in 2000.

He was elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1967 and received the Swedish Royal Medal Litteris et Artibus in 1986.

[edit] Works

Hambraeus wrote music for a large number of instruments, but he perhaps best known for his organ works. Together with Kagel and Ligeti he was among the first to use high modernist compositional methods to compose organ music.

[edit] Selected organ works

  • 1958 Constellations I
  • 1961-62 Interferenzen
  • 1966-67 Tre Pezzi per Organo
  • 1969 Nebulosa
  • 1974 Ricercare per organo
  • 1981 Livre d'orgue (4 volumes)
  • 1992 Missa pro organo: in memoriam Olivier Messiaen
  • 1999 Riflessioni per organo grande

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