This marks the start of a cycle of Wilhelm Stenhammar's string quartets from the ensemble, founded in 2002, that adopted his name. Stenhammar wrote seven quartets in all, of which the Third and Fourth ...

As with many composers operating at a remove from the artistic center, the work of Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar can be hard to place historically. Writing in the decades before and after 1900, ...

The relative obscurity of Wilhelm Stenhammar’s gorgeous Serenade is baffling. The Swedish composer wrote it in between 1914-19, under the spell of a trip to Italy. And even though there is no overt ...

Stenhammar Like many composers, Wilhelm Stenhammar took inspiration from William Shakespeare. From Stenhammar's music for Romeo and Juliet, the Helsingborg Symphony and conductor Arvo Volmer play the ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Malmö Symphony Orchestra Mario Venzago, Conductor (Karl) Wilhelm (Eugen) Stenhammar, Composer Niklas Sivelöv, Piano Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Niklas ...

Born in 1871, the 150th birthday of Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar was celebrated with a two-week festival in Sweden in the Fall of 2021. The 151st anniversary of his birth is coming up on ...

Play someone a recording of Wilhelm Stenhammar’s Second Symphony without any identifying information, and you’re likely to get a blank, bewildered stare. It’s not just that they won’t know the piece, ...

In several respected and authoritative reference books I have on piano repertoire, (Karl) Wilhelm (Eugen) Stenhammar (1871-1927) simply does not signify, a grossly unfair omission. The Swedish ...