Lars Johan Werle
Lars Johan Werle (23 June 1926 – 3 August 2001) was a Swedish modernist composer.
Life and career
Werle was born in Gävle, Sweden, and taught himself how to compose, before going on to study musicology at the University of Uppsala from 1948 to 1950, and then counterpoint with Sven-Erik Bäck from 1949 to 1952 He sang in the chorus Bel Canto, was active as a jazz musician, and worked as a producer for Swedish Radio from 1958 to 1970, after which he took a professorship at the National Music Drama School, and then at the Gothenburg Music Academy starting in 1977.
Werle was known for his avant-gardist, post-Webernian composition Pentagram for string quartet that won first prize at the Gaudeamus Festival in Bilthoven in 1960. He became known for his vocal and choral music, as well as his operas, such as Drömmen om Thérèse and "Resan", the latter of which he made with psychedelic rock group Mecki Mark Men. Werle also scored the films of Ingmar Bergman, Persona and Hour of the Wolf.
Selected works
Orchestra
- Sinfonia da camera (1961)
- Summer Music for piano and strings (1965)
- Zodiac, ballet score (1966)
- Vaggsång för jorden (Lullaby for the Earth) (1977)
Chamber
- Pentagram for string quartet (1960)
Vocal
- Nattjakt (Night Hunt) for soprano and orchestra (1973)
- Smultronvisa for voice, flute and strings (1976)
Opera
- Drömmen om Thérèse (Dreaming about Thérèse) (1964)
- Resan (The Journey) with Mecki Mark Men (1969)
- Tintomara (1973)
Sources
- Obituary in The Independent[dead link]
- Lars Johan Werle at IMDb
- Work List
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- Peter Schat (1957)
- Otto Ketting (1958)
- Louis Andriessen (1959)
- Lars Johan Werle (1960)
- Misha Mengelberg, Per Nørgård, and Enrique Raxach (1961)
- Pauline Oliveros (1962)
- Arne Mellnäs (1963)
- Ib Nørholm (1964)
- Joep Straesser and Mario Bertoncini (1965)
- Alfred Janson and Ton Bruynèl (1966)
- Hans-Joachim Hespos, Costin Miereanu, Maurice Benhamou, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Tona Scherchen, and Ralph Lundsten – Leo Nilson (1967)
- Vinko Globokar (1968)
- Jos Kunst (1969)
- Jan Vriend (1970)
- John McGuire (1971)
- Daniel Lentz (1972)
- Maurice Weddington (1973)
- Christian Dethleffsen (1974)
- Robert Saxton (1975)
- Fabio Vacchi (1976)
- Șerban Nichifor (1977)
- Stefan Dragostinov (1978)
- Mauro Cardi (1984)
- Unsuk Chin (1985)
- Uros Rojko (1986)
- Karen Tanaka (1987)
- Michael Jarrell (1988)
- Richard Barrett (1989)
- Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf and Paolo Aralla (1990)
- Asbjørn Schaathun (1991)
- Jörg Birkenkötter (1992)
- David del Puerto (1993)
- Richard Ayres (1994)
- Michael Oesterle and Jesus Torres (1995)
- Régis Campo (1996)
- Hang Zou (1997)
- Kumiko Omura and Geoff Hannan (1998)
- Michel van der Aa (1999)
- Yannis Kyriakides (2000)
- Palle Dahlstedt and Takuya Imahori (2001)
- Valerio Murat (2002)
- Dmitri Kourliandski (2003)
- Sampo Haapamäki (2004)
- Oscar Bianchi (2005)
- Lefteris Papadimitriou and Gabriel Paiuk (2006)
- Christopher Trapani (2007)
- Huck Hodge (2008)
- Ted Hearne (2009)
- Marko Nikodijević (2010)
- Yoshiaki Onishi (2011)
- Konstantin Heuer (2012)
- Tobias Klich (2013)
- Anna Korsun (2014)
- Alexander Khubeev (2015)
- Anthony Vine (2016)
- Aart Strootman (2017)
- Sebastian Hilli (2018)
- Kelley Sheehan (2019)
- Annika Socolofsky (2021)
- Rohan Chander (2022)
- Zara Ali (2023)
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