As I was dashing out of the Chicago Symphony concert Thursday night at Orchestra Hall, I bumped into a friend who had also attended the event. With the horn fanfares of the Swedish composer Wilhelm ...

Born in 1871, the 150th birthday of Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar was celebrated with a two-week festival in Sweden in the Fall of 2021. The 151st anniversary of his birth is coming up on ...

Like many composers, Wilhelm Stenhammar took inspiration from William Shakespeare. From Stenhammar's music for Romeo and Juliet, the Helsingborg Symphony and conductor Arvo Volmer play the Corrente ...

As with many composers operating at a remove from the artistic center, the work of Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar can be hard to place historically. Writing in the decades before and after 1900, ...

The relative obscurity of Wilhelm Stenhammar’s gorgeous Serenade is baffling. The Swedish composer wrote it in between 1914-19, under the spell of a trip to Italy. And even though there is no overt ...

Eventually known as one of Sweden’s greatest pianists, in his professional debut season Wilhelm Stenhammar performed the monumental 4-movement Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1. The next year (1893) ...

Play someone a recording of Wilhelm Stenhammar’s Second Symphony without any identifying information, and you’re likely to get a blank, bewildered stare. It’s not just that they won’t know the piece, ...

This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. Stenhammar’s First Symphony is so ...

Catch up on the day's news you need to know. Orchestra managements are warier and warier of programming any composer not immediately recognizable by the most casual concertgoer, making concertgoers ...

Admit members of the Stenhammar quartet from Sweden, who will be playing Anders Hillborg s compositions in the city on Wednesday. It s going to be a musical treat for Western classical music lovers in ...