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The Sinding song trilogy is complete<\/p>\n
In his own day Sinding was one of the most well known composers in Norway, but after his death in 1941 the interest for both man and music vanished. The composer himself is much to blame; all his life he burnt manuscripts and papers that might be of interest to posterity. It certainly did not do things better when he eight weeks before his death became a member of the Norwegian Nazi Party (NS). What the public did not know was that he at this stage had regarded himself as \u201cbeside himself\u201d and \u201cnot accountable\u201d for a long time, in addition to being almost deaf since 1937. Per Vollestad\u2019s work has shed a new light on this composer, and hearing his songs has posed the question: how is it possible for Norway to sit on such a treasure for so many years without enjoying it?<\/p>\n
The outside world has learned much more about this composer and his work, both through writings, a cabaret at Festspillene in Bergen on Sinding\u2019s life and art, and the recording of 120 song \u2014 many of which have never been heard on record before. Here is the final volume in the CD-series.<\/p>\n
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Four years after Per Vollestad started working on his thesis about Christian Sinding \u2013 the first performing doctorate at the Norwegian Academy of Music \u2013 Vollestad has succeeded in what he set out to do. The outside world has learned much more about this composer and his work, both through writings, a cabaret at Festspillene in Bergen on Sinding\u2019s life and art, and the recording of 120 song \u2014 many of which have never been heard on record before. Here is the final volume in the CD-series.<\/p>\n
Around the turn of the last century there was in Norway a hard struggle between the Danish-inspired language \u2018bokmaal\u2019 and the constructed-from-various-Norwegian-dialects new \u2018landsmaal\u2019. The former conservative, the latter more radical. After having written music mostly to German and Danish poetry up until now, Sinding was won over to the \u2018landsmaal\u2019-side when he realised the singing qualities of this dialect-inspired tongue. Poet Ivar Mortensson says the songs from then on flowed out of Sinding\u2019s pen like \u201cthe brook down the hillside\u201d.<\/p>\n
In his own day Sinding was one of the most well known composers in Norway, but after his death in 1941 the interest for both man and music vanished. The composer himself is much to blame; all his life he burnt manuscripts and papers that might be of interest to posterity. It certainly did not do things better when he eight weeks before his death became a member of the Norwegian Nazi Party (NS). What the public did not know was that he at this stage had regarded himself as \u201cbeside himself\u201d and \u201cnot accountable\u201d for a long time, in addition to being almost deaf since 1937. Per Vollestad\u2019s work has shed a new light on this composer, and hearing his songs has posed the question: how is it possible for Norway to sit on such a treasure for so many years without enjoying it?<\/p>\n
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\u2013 Particularly Sinding\u2019s songs contain things of great importance. Some find him too Wagnerian, but this is only on the surface. Especially in his Lieder he is exactly \u2013 Sinding himself. I find his music to Drachman\u2019s poetry particularly brilliant. [Edvard Grieg]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[180],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-simax-classics","7":"product_shipping_class-cddvd-shipping","8":"uni_artist_tag-christian-sinding","9":"uni_artist_tag-per-vollestad","10":"uni_artist_tag-sigmund-hjelset","11":"uni_artist_tag-tore-simonsen","12":"uni_main_artist_tag-per-vollestad","13":"uni_artist_genre-lieder","14":"uni_artist_genre-norwegian","16":"first","17":"outofstock","18":"taxable","19":"shipping-taxable","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}