Olof Åhlström (1756-1835) - Sonata pour le pianoforte avec l’accompagnement d’un violon (1784)

Grattis på födelsedagen Olof Åhlström! 🎹🎻 Composer: Olof Åhlström (1756-1835) Work: Sonata (I, B-Dur) pour le pianoforte avec l’accompagnement d’un violon, œuvre II (1784) Performers: Bernt Mаlmrοs (pianoforte); Sören Jаnssοn (violin) Sonata pour le pianoforte avec l’accompagnement d’un violon (1784) 1. Allegro 0:00 2. Adagio 4:39 3. Menuetto 10:28 Painting: Elias Martin (1739-1818) - View of Stockholm HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Olof Åhlström [Aalström] (Åletorp, 14 August 1756 - Stockholm, 11 August 1835) Swedish composer, pianist and publisher. Following early training by a local church organist, he moved to Stockholm in 1772, where he studied under Ferdinand Zellbell Jr. Although he was employed through governmental sinecures, he also functioned as an organist at the St. Clara Church in 1777 and in 1786 at the St. Jacob Church, in a post he held until his death. In 1787, the year of the successful performance of his opera ’Frigga’, he was granted a royal privilege to publish music. As a composer, his works include four operas, two cantatas, over 200 Lieder (most in Swedish), a concerto for the fortepiano, seven violin sonatas, six piano sonatas/sonatinas, and a book of hymns published in 1832. His music is characterized by a good sense of melody and simplicity, with orchestrations that range from perfunctory to colorful with generous use of woodwinds. Apart from individual compositions by various composers, he also published two journals, the ’Musikaliskt tidsfördrif’ and ’Skaldestycken satte i musik’. During the early part of the 19th century, he also collected folk dances, which he published in 1814.