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Wikström, Inger(b Göteborg, 11 Dec 1939). Swedish pianist, composer and conductor. She studied the piano with Gottfried Boon in Stockholm and with Ilona Kabos in London. In 1959 she made successful débuts in Stockholm, London and Berlin, and in New York in 1964; her subsequent career as a pianist included world-wide tours. In 1977 she founded the Nordic Music Conservatory and in 1980 the Nordic Chamber Opera. During the late 1970s she also began to compose and to conduct. Most of her compositions are vocal works; her music is lyrical, but with elements of expressionism and Swedish neo-romanticism, especially in the Rilke songs and the opera Den Fredlöse. WORKS
EVA ÖHRSTRÖM Wilars [Wilart] de Corbie.See Vielart de Corbie. Wilby, Philip(b Pontefract, 18 July 1949). English composer. Encouraged to take up composition by Herbert Howells, Wilby graduated from Keble College, Oxford, in 1970. After a year as a professional violinist, he was invited by Alexander Goehr, then professor of music at Leeds University, to join his staff. He has been the senior tutor in composition there since 1984. For Wilby composing is an act of worship, and most of his major works are expressions of his Christian faith. He is happy to tailor his versatile technique to the very different demands of the skilled amateur in a brass or wind band, both in Britain and in the United States, to the church or cathedral choir or to the finest professional soloist or orchestra. Wilby has developed a musical language characterized by directness and sincerity. He is attracted by opposites: on a musical level, combining music from the past with his own; on an expressive level, the interplay between light and dark, as in his Symphonia sacra ‘In Darkness Shine’ (1986), chaos and order, violence and tranquillity. Two of his larger sacred choral works, Cantiones sacrae (1987) and A Passion for our Times (1997), include a dance element. His reconstructions of two Mozart fragments have been widely performed. His evocative Second Symphony ‘Voyaging’, composed for the BBC Philharmonic in 1991, underpins a personal spiritual journey with music of energy and drive. Wilby has also composed two colourful symphonies for brass band, ‘Dance before the Lord’ (1994) and ‘Revelation’ (1995). These and other works of substance, like the Paganini Variations, a BBC commission from 1991, and Lowry Sketchbook (1992), have rejuvenated the repertory of the medium. WORKS(selective list)
BIBLIOGRAPHYM.S. McBride: A Study of the Compositional Presuppositions of Philip Wilby and Analysis of his Three Works for Wind Orchestra (diss., U. of Oklahoma, 1990) PAUL HINDMARSH Directory: New%20Grove%20Dictionnary%20Of%20Music Download 14.95 Mb. Share with your friends:
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