Hans Gefors

Hans Gefors (born 8 December 1952) is a Swedish composer. He was born in Stockholm and has lived in Lund since the mid-1990s.

Selected works La boîte chinoise, for guitar (1975) Poeten och glasmästaren, chamber opera (1979, libretto: Lars Forssell after Baudelaire) Slits for orchestra (1981) Christina, opera in two acts (1982–86, libretto: Lars Forssell och Hans Gefors) Whales weep not!, a cappella chorus (1987, D. H. Lawrence) Twine (Music no 3) for orchestra (1988) En obol, song-cycle (1989, Lars Forssell) Der Park, opera in three acts (1986–91, libretto: Botho Strauss och Hans Gefors) Vargen kommer, opera in three acts (1994–96, libretto: Kerstin Perski Lydias sånger, song-cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1995-96 from the poem of Hjalmar Söderberg Den allvarsamma leken) Clara, opera in two acts (1997–98, libretto: Jean-Claude Carrière) Kabaretsånger (2001, Jonas Gardell) Njutningen (La Jouissance) (Music no 7), song-cycle in five parts (2002) Skuggspel, opera in one act (2003–04, libretto: Maria Sundqvist) Själens rening genom lek och skoj, car-radio opera (2005–09, libretto: Hans Gefors after Erlend Loe) Umi sono mono for choir, electric guitar and percussion (2011, Yukio Mishima) Notorious, opera in five acts (2012–14, libretto: Kerstin Perski) Modstand mod renhed, three songs to poems by Inger Christensen (2015–16) Det store andletet, five songs to poems of Jon Fosse (2015–16)