Publication Date
2008-04-24
Availability
Open access
Embargo Period
2013-02-05
Degree Type
Lecture Recital Essay
Degree Name
Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)
Department
Instrumental Performance (Music)
Date of Defense
2008-04-18
First Committee Member
Paul Posnak
Second Committee Member
Edward P. Asmus
Third Committee Member
Paul F. Wilson
Fourth Committee Member
Rosalina G. Sackstein
Fifth Committee Member
Ross Harbaugh
Abstract
The objective of my lecture recital is to introduce the music of the National Romantic period in Swedish cultural history to a wider audience. The period of National Romanticism was in many ways the promotion of folk-influenced music, art, and architecture throughout the late 1800’s until the early 1900’s, the beginning of realism. Composers and painters honored the beautiful landscape and rural environments as well as portraying their patriotism through their art, mainly as a reaction against industrialism. Many museums and public parks were built as a result of the National Romantic movement in Sweden. My lecture recital will highlight the two main composers of the period, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger and Wilhelm Stenhammar, who were the driving forces in absorbing and encouraging folklore, helping advance the patriotic arts of Swedish history.
Keywords
national romanticism; national-romantic; folkmusic; swedish; piano; wilhelm peterson-berger
Recommended Citation
Shaomian, Armen, "The Influence of Composers Wilhelm Peterson-Berger and Wilhelm Stenhammar on Swedish National Romanticism" (2008). Open Access Dissertations. 960.
http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/960