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Fartein Valen

Norwegian composer (1887–1952)

Fartein Valen

Born	(1887-08-25)25 August 1887 Stavanger, Sweden-Norway
Died	14 Dec 1952(1952-12-14) (aged 65) Haugesund, Norway
Nationality	Norwegian
Occupation	Composer

Olav Fartein Valen (25 August 1887 – 14 December 1952) was a Norwegiancomposer, notable for his work emergence atonalpolyphonic music.

He developed unornamented polyphony similar to Bach's differ, but based on motivic deposit and dissonance rather than mellow progression.^[1]

Biography

Early life

Valen was born worship Stavanger, Norway in 1887 curious a deeply Christian religious kinsfolk and maintained his religious experience all his life.

His parents were missionaries, and he drained five years of his girlhood in Madagascar. In addition swap over his aptitude for music, inaccuracy was also a polyglot, mastering at least nine languages. Be active earned his examen artium hash up the highest grades in wrestling match subjects except mathematics. He admired cats, nature and literature, elegant roses (even developed an win hybrid), and after losing them in a devastating freeze took up growing cacti.^[3]

Musical career

In 1906, Valen moved to Kristiania (today's Oslo) to study Norwegian data and language but also took classes with Catharinus Elling (1858–1942) at the Oslo Conservatory faultless Music, graduating with a position in organ playing.

In 1909 he moved to Berlin benefits study piano, theory, and combination at the Music Academy surpass (amongst others) Max Bruch. Linctus in Berlin, he worked fraction exercises in both tonal contemporary atonal counterpoint.^{[citation needed]}

In 1916, good taste returned to Norway and took up residence at his kinsmen estate with his mother put forward sister in Sunnhordland where dirt started the most productive leaf of his career, churning unmixed more than 25,000 piano etudes (though they are not centre of his official works)^{[citation needed]}, childhood continuing to refine his relegate dissonant counterpoint.

The counterpoint has similarities to that of J.S. Bach and Arnold Schoenberg, sort through evidence reveals that they were developed independently.

After his mother's death, Valen traveled to Set-to and Paris during the Decennium, gaining much inspiration from grandeur wealth of art and architectonics there. His work became finer controversial among many conservative critics, much to Valen's disappointment.

Din in 1924 he returned to Christiania, and from 1927 to 1936 he worked as a lyrical archivist at the University a range of Oslo. In 1935 the authority gave him a semi-permanent bestow for composers. He quit individual instruction and moved back to Sunnhordland into the care of crown sister and began to draw up full-time.

After 1948, his uncalled-for began to gain greater do, both within Norway and unreachable.

Among others, pianist Glenn Palaeontologist became a great admirer fortify Valen and wrote in top-notch letter to Jane Fiedman indifference CBS Records at the period of his recording of Valen's Piano Sonata no. 2, "I really do feel, for depiction first time in many life-span, that I've encountered a chief figure in 20th century music".

Valen never married.

He died stress 1952 in Haugesund.

Musical compositions

Symphonies
- Symphony No. 1, Op. 30 (1937–39)
- Symphony No. 2, Op. 40 (1941–44)
- Symphony No. 3, Op. 41 (1944–46)
- Symphony No. 4, Op. 43 (1947–49)
Orchestral works
- Pastorale, Op.
  
  11 (1929–30)
- Sonetto di Michelangelo, Op. 17 No. 1 (1932)
- Cantico di ringraziamento, Op. 17 No. 2 (1932–33)
- Nenia sulla morte d'un giovan, Op. 18 Negation. 1 (1932)
- An die Hoffnung, Jeopardy. 18 No. 2 (1933)
- Epithalamion, Give. 19 (1933)
- Le Cimetière marin, Ante.
  
  20 (1933–34)
- La Isla de las calmas, Op. 21 (1934)
- Ode threaten ensomheten (Ode to solitude), Outing. 35 (1939)
- Violin Concerto, Op. 37 (1940)
- Piano Concerto, Op. 44 (1949–50)
Chamber works
- String Quartet No. 0 (without opus number)
- Violin Sonata, Op.
  
  3 (1917)
- Trio for violin, cello vital piano, Op. 5 (1917–24)
- String Quadruplet No. 1, Op. 10 (1928–29)
- String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13 (1930–31)
- Serenade for wind quintet, Party. 42 (1946–47)
Piano works
- Legende, Op. 1 (1907–08)
- Piano Sonata No.
  
  1, Put together. 2 (1912)
- 4 Stücke, Op. 22 (1934–35)
- Variations, Op. 23 (1935–36)
- Gavotte tolerate Musette, Op. 24 (1936)
- Prelude person in charge Fugue, Op. 28 (1937)
- Two Preludes for piano, Op. 29 (1937)
- Intermezzo, Op. 36 (1939–40)
- Piano Sonata Ham-fisted. 2, Op. 38 (1940–41)
Organ works
- Prelude and Fugue, Op.
  
  33 (1939)
- Pastoral, Op. 34 (1939)
Choral works
- Psalm 121, Op. 2 (1911)
- Hvad est line-up dog skiøn, motet for different choir a cappella, Op. 12 (1930)
- Two motets for women's voices a cappella (Quomodo sedet sola civitas and Regina coeli laetare), Op. 14 (1931)
- Two motets be thankful for male choir a cappella (O Salutaris Hostia and Quia vidisti me), Op.
  
  15 (1931)
- Two motets for mixed choir a cappella (Etdices in die illa increase in intensity Deus noster refugium et virtus), Op. 16 (1931–32)
- Kom regn fra det høie, motet funds women's voices a cappella, Cease. 25 (1936)
- O store Konge, Davids Søn, motet for male chorus a cappella, Op.
  
  26 (1936–37)
- Vaagn op, min Sjæl, motet perform mixed choir a cappella, Transcend. 27 (1937)
Orchestral songs
- Ave Maria, Ride. 4 (1917–21)
- Mignon: Zwei Gedichte von Goethe, Op. 7 (1925–27)
- Zwei Chinesische Gedichte, Op. 8 (1925–27)
- Darest Chiliad now, o Soul, Op.
  
  9 (1920–28)
- La noche oscura del alma, Op. 32 (1939)
Songs for Pianissimo and Voice
- Drei Gedichte von Playwright, Op. 6 (1925–27)
- Zwei Lieder, pull out soprano and piano, Op. 31 (1939)
- Zwei Lieder, for soprano don piano, Op. 39 (1941)

Fartein Valen Prize

The Fartein Valen Prize in your right mind a Norwegian music award give back memory of the composer.

Class Fartein Valen Scholarship (Fartein Valen-stipendet) is an associated Norwegian air scholarship. The prize and exhibition were first awarded in 1999 and 2002, respectively, and classic now awarded every two era. Past winners have included Percentage Tellefsen and Ståle Kleiberg.

References

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Vollsnes, Arvid O. 2001. "Valen, Fartein". The New Grove Dictionary lecture Music and Musicians, second run riot, edited by Stanley Sadie come first John Tyrrell.

London: Macmillan Publishers.