Rangström, Ture

Rangström, Ture – Häxorna (The Witches), 4 songs for mezzo-soprano and orchestra

(b. Stockholm, 30 November 1884 – d. Stockholm, 11 May 1947)

Songs for mezzo-soprano and orchestra

Häxorna I
Två stora nattfjärilsvingar p.1
(Two Big Moth’s Wings)

Häxorna II
Gå ej bland olvonträ och slån p.11
(Walk Not Amidst golden Roses and Sloes)

Häxorna III
Dansen går på grobladsplan p.41
(Dance in a Plantain Field)

Häxorna IV
Långt, långt bort i kvällarnas kväll p.61
(Far, Far Away in the Eve of Eves)

Preface
Ture Rangström, born in Stockholm, Sweden, was one of the most important Swedish song composers and belonged to the last ones who composed in the Romantic style. Rangström, who studied composition and singing in Berlin and Munich, pursued a wide-ranging career. Throughout his time as a professional musician he served as a music critic, conductor, voice teacher, and composer. As a music critic, he worked for three Swedish newspapers: Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholms Dagblad, and Nya Dagligt Allehanda, as chief conductor he led the Göteburg Orchestral Society from 1922 to 1925 and made several guest conducting appearances performing his own pieces, and a composer, he belonged to the founding members of the Swedish Society of Composers, along with several other Swedish composers, such as Kurt Atterberg, Hugo Alfven, Oskar Lindberg, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, and Wilhelm Stenhammar. …

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