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NOTE that this page will be rearranged soon. There might be more music by Roman here.

This page contains information on, and music by, Johan Helmich Roman, 1694 - 1758, known as "The Father of Swedish Music" because of his great efforts with making the first public concerts in Sweden, and the introduction of the Swedish language in church-music.

The Roman-collection at Project Runeberg includes:

Text

• An article by Fredrik Lidén.
• Short description of som of the most important events in Roman's life. Note: only available in Swedish!

Sheet music

• Facsimiles

  Song

  Poem by Jakob Freese, put to music by Roman. Available both as a downscaled grayscale-picture (94K) suitable for WWW, and a big B/W fax group 3 coded TIFF-picture (82K) suitable for printout.

  Song 1

  Poem by Jakob Freese, put to music by Roman. Available both as a downscaled grayscale-picture (64K) suitable for WWW, and a big B/W fax group 3 coded TIFF-picture (85K) suitable for printout.

  Song 4

  Poem by Jakob Freese, put to music by Roman. Available both as a downscaled grayscale-picture (90K) suitable for WWW, and a big B/W fax group 4 coded TIFF-picture (43K) suitable for printout.

  Song 14

  Poem by Jakob Freese, put to music by Roman. Available both as a downscaled grayscale-picture (75K) suitable for WWW, and a big B/W fax group 4 coded TIFF-picture (44K) suitable for printout.

• Typeset music

  Distributed in PostScript packed with gzip.

  Assaggio II for soloviolin.

  Part 1 and 2 (of 3) typeset by Fredrik Lidén.

  Sonata IX for harpsichord.

  As one PDF file or as 6 separate compressed PostScript files: :1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, typset by Don Simons

  Triosonata for 2 oboes and basso continuo.

  Also suitable for 2 violins and b.c. Typeset by Don Simons.

  Score

  10 pages + frontpage. Best if printed double-sided.

  Parts

  Nice double-sided if there was an empty frontpage.

  • Oboe 1. 4 pages.
  • Oboe 2. 4 pages.
  • Basso without figured bass. 4 pages.

Recordings

Drottningholmsmusiken

First movement, Allegro, performed by Chamberorchestra of Linköpings Cathedral. Available in two different formats:

• .au digitized in 8 khz, 8 bits (1.2M).
• MPEG-2 digitized in 32khz, 8 bits (1.2M).

Note that these recordings is not a part of the Project Runeberg, and therefor don't lack copyright. Personal use is fine though.