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Louise Farrenc. For more advanced searches and combinations please use the Språkbanken tool Karp. Helena Munktell was a composer who achieved great international success and was the first Swedish woman to have her opera performed in Sweden. Helena Mathilda Munktell was born in Grycksbo, Dalarna. She was the youngest of nine children born to a wealthy industrial family which enjoyed significant cultural capital.
She was also patron of young musicians.
In Helena Munktell and her mother set off on a long study tour of Europe. First they went to Vienna, Italy and Switzerland to take instruction in singing and the piano. She subsequently performed both as a solo pianist and played her own accompaniment when singing. The piano pieces which she came to compose tend to be well-constructed and display her significant knowledge of the range of expressions possible by piano.
Helena Munktell remained in Paris over the winter until , deepening her knowledge of musical composition. She studied with Benjamin Godard. She made her debut as a composer in in Stockholm, discovering her own special style, which merged Swedish and French stylistic ideals, and for which she gained significant public attention. Several of her songs were performed in the ensuing years and she became a significant and interesting song composer who typified the contemporary tradition of female northern European composers.
Her one-act opera called I Firenze was performed at the Kongl. Opera royal opera in Stockholm in It was also privately performed twice during the s and was very favourably received by the French press. This was a so-called one-act opera-comique whose strength lay in the solo numbers, particularly the romances Tror ni en kvinna så lätt kan glömma and O fagra barn. It was this opera which resulted in Helena Munktell being considered the first Swedish female composer of an opera.
She studied with him from onwards, initially as a private student and then from at the Schola Cantorum.
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Her bold tones were very popular in Paris and during the s she was admitted to the French society of composers. Two of her orchestral works, Suite symphonique and a symphonic poem called Bränningar , were premiered in Scandinavian concerts in Monte Carlo. The ballad Isjungfrun , written for a baritone and orchestra and composed in , was performed in Stockholm in , and two years later it was performed in Paris under the name of Visio Polaire.
Another orchestral piece entitled Dalsvit had its debut in at the Société Nationale de Musique in Paris, again under a different name of Suite Dalecarlienne. Later it was played at Konsertföreningen in Stockholm. She also composed a cantata for the opening of the Swedish Church in London in Helena Munktell also wrote several choral pieces, both a capella and with piano or organ accompaniment.
Much of her music, including several of the more extensive pieces, were published in Stockholm or Paris. In she became a member of the Kungliga musikaliska akademien and in she was one of the founders of Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare. Although Helena Munktell brought new elements to Swedish musical life through her bold, French-inspired tones and freestyle harmonising, she was also inspired by and reinvigorated Swedish traditional songs and folk dances in her national romantic pieces.
This is perhaps most clearly evident in the orchestral works called Dalsvit and Valborgsmässoeld as well as in the violin sonata — all of which are inspired by the countryside both in tone and rhythm. Her completely individual style involved the merging of French ideals of tone and form with Nordic folk melodies. Karin Wiberg Translated by Alexia Grosjean. Helena Mathilda Munktell — Composer, pianist Helena Munktell was a composer who achieved great international success and was the first Swedish woman to have her opera performed in Sweden.
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Helena Munktell died in Stockholm in and is buried at the Norra cemetery in Solna. Brother: Johan Henrik Munktell d. Activities Profession: Konsertpianist, ackompanjatör Profession: Konsertpianist, ackompanjatör — Profession: Kompositör Profession: Kompositör — Sources Archive Helena Munktell. Musik- och teaterbiblioteket Hämtad Wikipedia Hämtad Literature 'Helene Munktell', Idun , 2 , S.
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