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DRAMATIC ART.
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orchestra concert in Paris 1900 were, besides Berwald, Söderman, Hallén, and
Stenhammar, only L. Norman (1831/85), A. Rubenson (1826/1901), and H. Alfvèn
(born 1872). But more might have had just pretensions of being remembered,
for instance F. Arlberg (1830/96), R. Henneberg (born 1853), A. Andersén
(born 1845), J. A. Hägg (born 1850), T. Aulin (born 1866), Sjögren, a. o.
Some of those already mentioned have also composed larger or smaller choral
works, and besides them, V. Svedbom (born 1843), E. Åkerberg (born I860),
I. Hedenblad (born 1851), A. Körling (born 1842), and many others.
But it is not merely in
the precincts of composition
— especially that of
roman-zas — that Sweden holds
an estimable place. In
execution, it occupies a still
higher or, at least, far better
known position. Our singing
has, on the whole, been one of
the chief means to make
Swedish music honoured abroad.
Swedish student singers and
Swedish female quartets have
won laurels wherever they have
appeared. Thus our students’
performances were received
with great applause in Paris
at the Exhibitions of 1867,
1878, and 1900. Several
among our lady-singers have
become world-renowned. Many
a one considers Jenny Lind
(1820/87) the greatest singer
that ever was. Admired more
than anybody, perhaps — both
in the Old and the New world
— she offered the exceptional instance of one who, standing on the very height
of success, leaves the stage to devote her skill to the sacred oratorio, and her
life to family duties and charity. Mrs. Louise Michaëli (1830/75) and Kristina
Nilsson (born 1843), at their periods of glory, were counted among the foremost.
Of låte years, Siarid Arnoldson (born 1861), daughter to one of our principal
tenors, O. Arnoldwn (1830/81), has acquired European fame, as also Ellen
Gulbranson (born 1863). Most of the pure and melodious singing voices, in
which Sweden always was rich, have, however, preferred to choose for their
sphere of activity our own lyric stage, which at present, in Carolina Östberg
(born 1853) and Valborg Svärdström (born 1879), C. F. Lundqvist (born 1841),
A. Ödmann (born 1850), and J. Forsell (born 1868), possesses excellent voices
and, in Mathilda Jungstedt (born 1864), Ånna Hellström (born 1875), J.
Elm-blad (born 1853; at present in New York), and Sven Nyblom (born 1868), artists
of great dramatic skill besides.
Dramatic Art.
The first definite vestiges of a vernacular dramatic art in Sweden may be
traced back to the 16th and 17th centuries. Already before that, Moralities and
Mysteries seem to have been acted here, and then — like the school dramas
Sweden. 28
Jenny Lind.
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