Wallner, Bo
(b Lidköping, 15 June 1923). Swedish musicologist. After studying musicology with Moberg at Uppsala University (graduated 1955), he worked as a music critic for Expressen (1949–53), and was president of Fylkingen (the Swedish section of the ISCM, 1954–6) and adviser to Swedish Radio (1956–74). He was appointed lecturer in musicology and form at the Stockholm Conservatory in 1962 and became professor in 1970. He is one of the most astute observers of the contemporary musical scene in Scandinavia. His articles on Stenhammar’s chamber music, on various aspects of the music of Hilding Rosenberg and on Scandinavian music after World War II led to his monumental Vår tids musik i Norden (1968), a comprehensive, well balanced and well documented account. The activities of an interesting group of young musicians in Sweden during the 1940s (Blomdahl, Bäck, Leygraf etc.) are described in 40-tal: en klippbok om Måndagsgruppen (1971) and he published his great monograph on Wilhelm Stenhammar in 1991. He has also written useful textbooks on musical form and works on music education.
WRITINGS
‘Melodiken i Hilding Rosenbergs senaste instrumentalverk’, Ord och bild, lxi (1952), 359–66
‘Wilhelm Stenhammar och kammarmusiken’, STMf, xxxiv (1952), 28–59; xxxv (1953), 5–73; xliii (1961), 355–71
with H. Blomstedt and F. Lindberg: Lars-Erik Larsson och hans concertinor (Stockholm, 1957)
Det musikaliska formstudiet (Stockholm, 1957)
‘Kammarmusikalisk sammanfattning: om Hilding Rosenbergs stråkkvartetter’, Nutida musik, ii (1958–9), no.1, pp.3–7; no.2, pp.5–8
‘Kring Rosenbergs Riflessioni 1–3’, Nutida musik, v/4 (1961–2), 5–11
‘Scandinavian Music after the Second World War’, MQ, li (1965), 111–43
with S. Andersson: Musikens material och form (Stockholm, 1968)
‘Om Rued Langgaard og Sfaerernes Musik’, DMt, xliii (1968), 174–9
Vår tids musik i Norden: från 20-tal till 60-tal (Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo, 1968)
40-tal: en klippbok om Måndagsgruppen och det svenska musiklivet (Stockholm, 1971)
‘Carl Nielsen – romantiserad’, STMf, liii (1971), 79–90
‘Vägar till kompositionsseminariet’, Svenska musikperspektiv: minnesskrift vid Kungl. musikaliska akademiens 200-års jubileum 1971, ed. G. Hilleström (Stockholm, 1971), 244–80
‘Rosenberg och 20-talet’, Nutida musik, xv/4 (1971–2), 3–18; xvi/1 (1972–3), 20–33
Musiksvenska (Stockholm, 1973, 2/1984)
‘Den stora konserten: om Gustav Mahler i svenskt och finskt musikliv på 1910-talet’, Juhlakirja Erik Tawaststjernalle, ed. E. Salmenhaara (Helsinki, 1976), 134–73
‘Ett skapande flöde’, Artes [Stockholm], xvi/2 (1990), 79–96 [on D. Börtz]
‘Vision och vilja: om Karl-Birger Blomdahl’, Konsertnytt, xxvi/Nov (1990–91), 4–29 [Karl-Birger Blomdahl-festival]
Wilhelm Stenhammar och hans tid (Stockholm, 1991) [3 vols]
‘Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871–1927)’, Musiken i Sverige, iii, ed. L. Jonsson and M. Tegen (Stockholm, 1992), 457–70
‘Hilding Rosenberg’, ‘Karl-Birger Blomdahl’, ‘Sven-Erik Bäck’, ‘Ingvar Lidholm och Måndagsgruppen’, Musiken i Sverige, iv, ed. L. Jonsson and H. Åstrand (Stockholm, 1994), 367–83, 445–61
‘Den symfoniska eran’, Musik i Norden, ed. G. Andersson (Stockholm, 1997), 265–90
‘Tre korta kapitel om stråkkvartetter, Hilding Rosenberg och musiklivet i Stockholm’, Den europeiske Rosenberg, ed. L. Bjelkeborn (Stockholm, 1997), 4–31 [programme book]
‘Om människorösten, om den mänskliga rösten’, Ingvar Lidholm: tonsättarfestival, ed. L. Bjelkeborn (Stockholm, 1998), 64–81 [Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; programme book; also incl. complete programme notes by Wallner]
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Lodet och spjutspetsen: en skrift om det konstnärliga utvecklingsarbetet (Stockholm, 1985) [Festschrift for 60th birthday; incl. list of pubns, 170–84]
JOHN BERGSAGEL/HENRIK KARLSSON
Walls, Peter (Gerard)
(b Christchurch, 24 Sept 1947). New Zealand musicologist. After completing degrees in English literature and music at Victoria University of Wellington (1966–71) he took the DPhil in musicology at Oxford (1971–6). In 1976 he became a lecturer in English at Victoria University and transferred to the university's school of music in 1978. He became professor there in 1993. His principal research interests are 17th- and 18th-century performing practice, particularly in relation to stringed instruments, and 17th-century English music, especially the music of the court masque. He has performed as a violinist with several period instrument orchestras and directs New Zealand's Baroque Players and Tudor Consort, as well as regularly conducting opera productions and orchestral concerts. Since 1996 he has been deputy chairman of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra board.
WRITINGS
‘Lyra Viol Song’, Chelys, v (1973–4), 68–75
Music in the English Courtly Masque (diss., U. of Oxford, 1976)
‘New Light on Songs by William Lawes and John Wilson’, ML, lvii (1976), 55–64
‘La musica della pace regale’, Mitologie: convivenze di musica e mitologia, ed. G. Morelli (Venice, 1979), 46–58
‘The English Masque in a European Context’, IMSCR XIII: Strasbourg 1982, iii, 384–9
‘Insubstantial Pageants Preserved: the Literary and Musical Sources for the Jonsonian Masque’, Jonson and Shakespeare, ed. I. Donaldson (London, 1983), 202–18
‘The Origins of English Recitative’, PRMA, cx (1983–4), 25–40
‘“Music and Sweet Poetry”? Verse for English Lute Song and Continuo Song’, ML, lxv (1984), 237–54
‘Violin Fingering in the 18th Century’, EMc, xii (1984), 300–15
‘“Ill-Compliments and Arbitrary Taste”? Geminiani's Directions for Performers’, EMc, xiv (1986), 221–35
‘The Baroque Era: Strings’, Performance Practice: Music after 1600, ed. H.M. Brown and S. Sadie (London, 1989), 44–79, 501–3
‘Comus: the Court Masque Questioned’, The Well Enchanting Skill … Essays in Honour of F.W. Sternfeld, ed. J.A. Caldwell, E.D. Olleson and S. Wollenberg (Oxford and New York, 1990), 107–13
‘The Influence of the Italian Violin School in Seventeenth-Century England’, EMc, xviii (1990), 575–87
‘Mozart and the Violin’, EMc, xx (1992), 7–29
‘Music in London 1603–1649’, The Early Baroque Era, ed. C. Price and N. Fortune (London, 1993) 270–304
Music in the English Courtly Masque 1604–1640 (Oxford, 1995)
‘Performing Corelli's Opus 5’, EMc, xxiv (1996), 133–42
‘Geminiani and the Role of the Viola in the Concerto Grosso’, Liber Amicorum John Steele: a Musicological Tribute, ed. W. Drake (Stuyvesant, NY, 1997), 379–413
editions
with B. Thomas: Twenty-One Masque Dances of the Early Seventeenth Century, English Instrumental Music of the Late Renaissance, ii (London, 1974)
John Adson: Courtly Masquing Ayres 1621 (London, 1976–9)
with B. Thomas: Twenty-Five Masque Dances (London, 1987)
ADRIENNE SIMPSON
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