![]() In 1866, Berwald received the Swedish Order of the Polar Star, in recognition of his musical achievements. Following this success, he wrote Drottningen av Golconda ( The Queen of Golconda), which would have been premiered in 1864, but was not, due to a change of directors at the Royal Opera. One of his few operas to be staged in his lifetime, Estrella de Soria, was heartily applauded at its premiere at the Royal Theater in April 1862, and was given four more performances in the same month. ![]() During that time Berwald focused his attention on producing chamber music. When Berwald returned to Sweden in 1849, he managed a glass works at Sandö in Ångermanland owned by Ludvig Petré, an amateur violinist. The Mozarteum Salzburg made him an honorary member in 1847. Its three movements are played without a break.īerwald's music was not recognised favourably in Sweden during his lifetime, even drawing hostile newspaper reviews, but fared a little better in Germany and Austria. Particularly in its brilliant last movement it may be compared favourably to Robert Schumann or Edvard Grieg. His Piano Concerto, finished in 1855, intended for his piano pupil Hilda Aurora Thegerström, who continued her studies with Antoine François Marmontel and Franz Liszt, did not see the light of day until 1904, when Berwald's granddaughter Astrid performed it at a Stockholm student concert. Another operetta, The Modiste, had less success in 1845. In 1846, Jenny Lind sang in one of Berwald's cantatas. At that same concert, his operetta Jag går i kloster ( I enter a monastery) was also performed, but its success is credited to one of the roles having been sung by Jenny Lind. In 1843, it was premiered in Stockholm with his cousin Johan Frederik conducting the Royal Opera House Orchestra. 1 in G minor, " Sérieuse", was the only one of Berwald's four symphonies that was performed in his lifetime. In 1842 a concert of his tone poems at the Redoutensaal at the Hofburg Imperial Palace received extremely positive reviews, and over the course of the next three years Berwald wrote four symphonies. He stopped composing during his time in Berlin, resuming only in 1841 with a move to Vienna and marriage to Mathilde Scherer. Some of the orthopedic devices he invented were still in use decades after his death. To make a living, Berwald started an orthopedic and physiotherapy clinic in Berlin in 1835, which turned out to be profitable. Berwald tried to get several scholarships, but only got one from the King, which enabled him to study in Berlin, where he worked hard on operas despite not having any chance to put them on the stage. His family got into dire economic circumstances after the death of his father in 1825. It was not well received some people in the audience burst out laughing during the slow movement. In 1821, his Violin Concerto was premiered by his brother August. In 1818 Berwald started publishing the Musikalisk journal, later renamed Journal de musique, a periodical with easy piano pieces and songs by various composers as well as some of his own original work. ![]() Of his works from that time, a septet and a serenade he still considered worthwhile music in his later years. The summers were off-season for the orchestra, and Berwald travelled around Scandinavia, Finland and Russia. In 1811, Karl XIII came to power and reinstated the Royal Chapel the following year Berwald started working there, as well as playing the violin in the court orchestra and the opera, receiving lessons from Edouard du Puy, and also started composing. He made his living as an orthopedic surgeon and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory.īerwald was born in Stockholm and came from a family with four generations of musicians his father, a violinist in the Royal Opera Orchestra, taught Franz the violin from an early age he soon appeared in concerts. Franz Adolf Berwald (JApril 3, 1868) was a Swedish Romantic composer who was generally ignored during his lifetime.
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