Annual List of Works : Iceland Music Information Centre

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Work Title:
Fluff and Drama

Composer:
Atli Heimir Sveinsson, 1938, Icelandic, Holtgata 22, 101 Reykjavik - Iceland

Year of Composition:
2004

Instrumentation:
flute, clarinet, 2 percussion, violin, cello and piano

Duration:
00:10:00 – or 10 minutes

Place of premiere performance:
Never performed in this form – (sec.arr. 4.feb.2006 Reykjavik)

Score
Publisher: ITM – Sidumuli 34
URL: www.mic.is
Email: itm@mic.is
Edition-No.: 002-321
Price: 190 se.kr. for score – parts are available

Programme Note
Fluff and drama was composed little by little over a period of several years. There was no planning. When I occationally added something new, I had forgotten was had been previously written. This was an improvisation without a past, impromtu
in the real sense of the word. The quality of the music varied. I think there is some “good” music and some “bad”. Some serious things and some unserious. I tried to avoid a stile, what Adorno might have called frequent kind of similar comsumption. Most other composers work differently.

Composer Biography
Atli Heimir Sveinsson is one of the most prominent Icelandic postwar composers with a varied list of works to his credit, including operas, ballet and major orchestral works, widely performed. Mr. Sveinsson studied piano with Rögnvaldur Sigurjónsson at the Reykjavík College of Music, and composition, conducting and piano at the State Academy in Cologne, with teachers including Gunter Raphael, Rodolf Petzold and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. He studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, and in the Netherlands he studied electronic music with Gottfried Michael Koenig. Atli Heimir Sveinsson's catalogue includes nine solo concertos, numerous orchestral, chamber and solo works, an orchestral song cycle to Steinn Steinarr's poem Time and Water; and the operas The Silk Drum, Vikivaki, Moonlight Island, and Hertervig, an opera written to a libretto by the Norwegian poet Paal-Helge Haugen. A new opera is to be premiered in December 2000. In addition he has composed religious songs and IAMIC Annual List of Works 2006 psalms, and music for the theatre, of which many songs have gained enormous popularity, enjoyed by young and old. Atli Heimir Sveinsson was president of the Society of Icelandic Composers in 1972-1983. In 1976 he received the Nordic Council Music Prize for his Concerto for Flute and Orchestra.