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    Hugo Emil Alfvén (Swedish: [alˈveːn] ; 1 May 1872 – 8 May 1960) was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter. Alfvén was born in Stockholm...
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    Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén who had also been taken by her beauty. The couple had a child, Marie divorced Krøyer and moved to Sweden with Alfvén. They married...
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    The writer was Inger Alfvén and is well known for her work in Sweden. The composer Hugo Alfvén was Hannes Alfvén's uncle. Alfvén studied the history of...
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  • Hugo, British artist Hugo, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg (died 1444), German noble Hugh of Ostia (died 1158), French religious leader Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960)...
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  • Alfvén may refer to: Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995), Swedish plasma physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960), Swedish composer...
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  • Uti vår hage (song) (category Compositions by Hugo Alfvén)
    owing to this popularity is an arrangement of the piece by composer Hugo Alfvén in 1923. The piece is often performed, among other Swedish traditional...
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  • Some familiar examples may give an idea of the character of a rhapsody: Hugo Alfvén, Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 (Midsommarvaka), for orchestra Béla Bartók, Rhapsody...
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    Roosval, Carl Milles, Olle Hjortzberg, Filip Månsson, Oscar Brandtberg and Hugo Alfvén. "Uppenbarelsekyrkan i Saltsjöbaden". Diocese of Stockholm, Swedish Church...
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  • Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 (category Compositions by Hugo Alfvén)
    for 'Midsummer Vigil'), a symphonic rhapsody by the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960). Although it is only the first of three similarly named works...
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  • includes in this compilation are: Richard Addinsell, Tomaso Albinoni, Hugo Alfvén, Samuel Barber, Luigi Boccherini, Joseph Canteloube, Marc-Antoine Charpentier...
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    by George Balanchine to music by Sergei Prokofiev; A 1957 ballet by Hugo Alfvén; and A 1968 opera by Benjamin Britten. The parable is referenced in the...
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    nickname after listeners believed that the "Swedish Rhapsody No. 1" by Hugo Alfvén was being used as the interval signal. Documents subsequently released...
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    residence of employees at Uppsala University, the last of whom was musician Hugo Alfvén. Since 1937, the house has been a museum of Linnaeus personal and professional...
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  • Rodrigo (1901–1999) was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist. Hugo Alfvén Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960) studied at the music conservatory in his hometown,...
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    other prominent composers such as Ture Rangström, Wilhelm Stenhammar and Hugo Alfvén. Six years later he was elected president of the society, maintaining...
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  • ""From the Outermost Skerries", fourth symphony in C minor, Op. 39, by Hugo Alfvén Battle of Skerries, a 1316 battle in Skerries, County Kildare Skerries...
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  • Hugo Alfvén...
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  • Desire, 1912) Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, symphonic poem after Victor Hugo, (1846) Rédemption, for soprano, chorus and orchestra, M. 52 (1872, r. 1874)...
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    in 1905 when Marie became pregnant after an affair with the composer Hugo Alfvén whom she then married. Krøyer died in Skagen four years later, apparently...
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    The position has been held by composers such as Wilhelm Stenhammar, Hugo Alfvén and Lars-Erik Larsson. Affiliated with the university are three choirs...
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  • songs are quoted. One quoted melody is the First Swedish Rhapsody of Hugo Alfvén. The Italian tune "Santa Lucia" is also quoted. In the movie soundtrack...
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    The B-side of "Song from the Moulin Rouge" was "Swedish Rhapsody" by Hugo Alfvén. In 1961 his fame in Sweden rose exponentially as his work Mucho Gusto...
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    Mörkt vatten Daniel 2012 Call Girl Krister 2012 The Passion of Marie Hugo Alfvén 2013 Love and Lemons David Kummel 2013 Waltz for Monica Sture Åkerberg...
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    the silent and early sound era. She was the daughter of the composer Hugo Alfvén and the artist Marie Krøyer. In 1920, at the age of 15, she became engaged...
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    (Pia-Marie Nilsson, soprano, Olle Persson, baritone) A Nordic Festival: Hugo Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody No 1 Midsommarvaka & Bergakungen, Jean Sibelius: Valse...
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    Suchoň – Slovakia Mykola Lysenko - Ukraine Mykola Leontovych - Ukraine Hugo Alfvén – Sweden Edvard Grieg – Norway (set German as well as Norse and Danish...
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    Agrell (1701–1765), full name: Johan Joachim Agrell Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960), full name: Hugo Emil Alfvén Kurt Atterberg (1887–1974), full name: Kurt Magnus...
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  • – Eric Kennington, English sculptor and war artist (b. 1888) May 8 – Hugo Alfvén, Swedish musician and painter (b. 1872) May 16 – Igor Grabar, Russian...
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    Sweden, the works of Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm Stenhammar, and Hugo Alfvén show a typical Nordic conservatism, and the Norwegian Christian Sinding...
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  • – Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, President of Nicaragua (d. 1966) 1872 – Hugo Alfvén, Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter (d. 1960) 1872 –...
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