Hilding Hallnäs

Hilding Hallnäs (24 May 1903 – 11 September 1984) was a Swedish composer. Hallnäs was married to the actress Gun Holmquist.

Life and career Hallnäs was born in Halmstad, Sweden, in 1903. His father had been a tenor and sang in choirs. After matriculation in his home town, he entered the Royal College of Music, Stockholm in 1924, He was active in the Levande Musik (Living Music) concert association and the Gothenburg Composers' Association. In 1974, he settled in Stockholm.

Selected compositions

Music for the stage Ballet: Kärlekens ringdans (1955) Ballet: Ifigenia (1961–63)

Orchestral music Divertimento for orchestra (1937) Seven symphonies (including Sinfonietta pastorale (1944), Sinfonia notturna (1946), Small symphony for strings (1947), Metamorfose sinfonice (1952)) Violin concerto (1945) Piano concerto (1956) Flute concertos (1957, 1962) En grekisk saga (1967 – a protest against the junta's seizure of power) Viola concerto (1978) Cello concerto (1981–82)

Organ music Fantasi (1936) Fantasi and preludium with chorale (1957) Pietà (1962) Organ sonatas – No 1: De profundis (1965), No 2 (1977) Passionsmusik - Musica dolorosa (1968)

Chamber music Viola Sonata, Op. 19 (1943); dedicated to Sten Broman Legend for viola and piano (1945) String Quartet (1949) Spel för två (Jeux à deux) for clarinet and viola (1960) Violin Sonatas (1965), (1975) Partita Amabile and other works for guitar

Vocal Rapsodia (1963) for soprano and chamber orchestra Cantata solemnis (1971) Around 100 songs,