Erik Nordgren
Erik Nordgren | |
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| Birth name | Herman Nordgren |
| Born | 13 February 1913 Sireköpinge, Malmöhus County, Sweden |
| Died | 6 March 1992 (aged 79) Västerhaninge, Sweden |
| Genres | Film score |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, arranger, bandleader |
Herman "Erik" Nordgren (13 February 1913 – 6 March 1992) was a Swedish composer, arranger and bandleader.
Biography
Erik Nordgren was born in
Swedish Film Industry, 1953-1967, and then 1967-1977 he served as orchestra director at the SR. In addition he wrote three string quartets, chamber symphony (1944), Concerto for clarinet (1950), Concerto for Bassoon (1960) and Music for orchestra. From the 1960s, he composed electronic music
, something that was not so well known to most people.
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For the music to Wild Strawberries he won a special award from the magazine Folket i Bild, as well as an award of Swedish film community in 1957.[3] He died in Västerhaninge.
Works
- The Emigrants (1971)
- 4x4 (1965)
- All These Women (1964)
- The Dress (1964)
- The Pleasure Garden (1961 film) (1961)
- Two Living, One Dead (1961)
- Through a Glass Darkly (film) (1961)
- On a Bench in a Park (1960)
- The Devil's Eye (1960)
- The Virgin Spring (1960)
- The Magician (1958 film) (1958)
- Jazzgossen(1958)
- Den store amatören(1958)
- Playing on the Rainbow (1958)
- Wild Strawberries (film) (1957)
- The Seventh Seal (1957)
- The Staffan Stolle Story (1956)
- Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
- Våld(1955)
- Gabrielle (1954)
- The Glass Mountain (1953)
- Ingen mans kvinna(1953)
- Dansa min docka (1953)
- I dimma dold(1953)
- Sommaren med Monika(1953)
- Defiance (1952)
- Frånskild(1951)
- Sommarlek(1951)
- Sånt händer inte här(1950)
- Love Wins Out (1949)
- Törst (1949)
- Eva (1948)
- Kvinna utan ansikte(1947)
- Crime and Punishment (1945)
Discography
- The Bergman Suites, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marco Polo, 1996
Writing
- Erik Nordgren and Ingmar Bergman : the music in the film ' Wild Strawberries ' 1957 , bachelor thesis by Sofia Lilly Jönsson, Stockholm University , 2008 ( awarded the Benny s scholarship 2010)[4]
References
- ^ "Ingmar Bergman-stiftelsen, musik till Bergmans filmer". Archived from the original on 18 April 2013.
- ^ Swedish Radio's archives in 2009, "The Forgotten electronic musician - Erik Nordgren" Part 1[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Erik Nordgren". Swedish Film Database. 13 February 1913.
- ^ "Jönsson's essay and scholarship". Stockholm University. 2010. Archived from the original on 18 April 2013.
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