Hugo Alfven: Swedish Rhapsody For Piano (Arr. Percy Faith)
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SKU: HL.14001619
Composed by Hugo Alfven. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2002. 4 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH27178. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14001619).ISBN 9788759855263. UPC: 884088558734. 8.25x11.75 inches.
The Swedish Rhapsody , also known as 'Midsommarvaka' (Midsummer Vigil), is a symphonic rhapsody written in 1903 and is the best-known piece composed by Hugo Alfven , and also one of the best-known pieces of music in Sweden. It can be described as a fantasy on popular Swedish folk melodies depicting the moods evoked by an old-time Swedish Midsummer-wake. This edition presents the rhapsody in a Piano transcription, as arranged and popularised by Canadian composer and conductor Percy Faith . Hugo Alfven was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter. Alfven became known as one of Sweden's principal composers with the late-Romantic idiom of his music which revokespictures of the Swedish landscape. His orchestration is skilful and colourful, reminiscent of that of Richard Strauss.