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Lindberg was born in Helsinki. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki under Einojuhani Rautavaara and Paavo Heininen, beginning with piano. Founded 1550 Country Finland Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Area[1] - Of which land - Rank 185. ... The Sibelius Academy in downtown Helsinki. ... Einojuhani Rautavaara (born October 9, 1928) is a Finnish composer of classical music, probably the best known Finnish composer of his generation. ... Paavo Heininen (born 13 January 1938 in Helsinki) is a Finnish composer. ...

He attended summer courses in Siena (with Franco Donatoni) and Darmstadt (with Brian Ferneyhough). After graduating from the Sibelius Academy in 1981 he travelled widely in Europe, attending private studies with Vinko Globokar and Gérard Grisey in Paris, and observing Japanese drumming and punk rock in Berlin. Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. ... Franco Donatoni (1927, Verona-17 August 2000) was an Italian composer of art music. ... Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hessen in Germany. ... Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (born 16 January 1943 in Coventry) is a British composer. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Vinko Globokar (b. ... Gérard Grisey (born 1946; died November 11, 1998) was a French composer of contemporary music. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...

While at 16 Lindberg wrote a large orchestral work called Donor, this was considered impossible to perform, and several subsequent works were considered juvenalia. Quintetto dell’Estate (1979) is generally held to be Lindberg's first opus. His first piece performed by a professional orchestra was Sculpture II in 1982, the second part of a trilogy whose first and third sections were long unwritten. His first great success came with "Action-Situation-Signification" (1982), the first work in which he explored musique concrète. This piece was written for and premiered by the new-music ensemble Toimii ("It Works" in the Finnish language), which Lindberg founded during the summer of 1980. Lindberg is a trained pianist and has performed several of his works as part of Toimii. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Musique concrète (French; literally, concrete music), is the name given to a class of electronic music produced from editing together fragments of natural and industrial sounds. ... Toimii (Finnish It works) is an ensemble for new music founded in the summer of 1980 by Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg with several other young composers and instrumentalists connected with the Sibelius Academy. ... Finnish ( ) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92%[2] as mother tongue) and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Kraft (1983-85), another piece written for Toimii, was Lindberg's largest work to date, with over 70 harmonies and a meter-high score. It uses not only traditional instrumentation, but percussion on scrap metal and spoken word. Lindberg found this large work difficult to follow, and with the exception of 1986's Ur, which he called "Kraft in chamber form", he entered an extensive creative hiatus which was to last for over two years. During this time he was not only rethinking his style, but also recovering from a tropical disease contracted during travels in Indonesia. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Kraft made use of a chaconne-type structure where the progression of the piece is based on a repeated chain of chords. It was this idea that served as the basis for Lindberg's next style. He returned with an orchestral trilogy consisting of Kinetics (1988), Marea (1989-90) and Joy (1990). Though Lindberg became less interested in electronic manipulation of sound, he still explored the possibilities of compositional software, and Engine displays complex counterpoint generated by computer. In music a chaconne is a musical form. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ...

Among the many prizes his music has won are the Prix Italia (1986), the UNESCO Rostrum (1986), the Nordic Music Prize (1988) for Kraft, and the Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for large-scale composition (1992). The Prix Italia is an Italian broadcasting award. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nordic Council Music Prize is awarded annually by NOMUS, the Nordic Music Committee. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

Works

• Musik för två pianon (Music for Two Pianos) (1976)
• Arabesques for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn (1978)
• Quintetto dell' estate for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1979)
• Linea d'ombra (1981)
• "...de Tartuffe, je crois..." for piano quintet (1981)
• Action-Situation-Signification (1982)
• Tendenza for 21 players (1982)
• Ablauf (1983)
• Ground for harpsichord (1983)
• Kraft (1983-85)
• Metal Work (1984)
• Stroke for cello (1984)
• UR (1986)
• Twine for solo piano (1988)
• Kinetics (1988-89)
• Marea (1989-90)
• Joy (1989-90)
• Moto (1990)
• Steamboat Bill Jr. (1990)
• Jeux d'anches for solo accordion (1990)
• Clarinet Quintet (1992)
• Duo Concertante for solo clarinet and cello (1992)
• Corrente for chamber orchestra (1992)
• Corrente II for symphony orchestra (1992)
• Decorrente (1992)
• Kiri (1993)
• Songs from North and South" for chorus a cappella (1993)
• Coyote Blues for large chamber ensemble (1993)
• Away for solo clarinet (1994)
• Aura (in memoriam Witold Lutoslawki) for orchestra (1994)
• Concerto for piano and orchestra (1994)
• Zungenstimmen (1994)
• Arena for orchestra (1995)
• Arena II for orchestra (1996)
• Engine (1996)
• Related Rocks (1997)
• Feria
• Cantigas (1997-1999)
• Concerto for cello and orchestra (1999)
• Parada
• Fresco
• Corrente - China Version (2000)
• Jubilees for piano (2000)
• Partia for cello solo (2001)
• Dos Coyotes (2002)
• Bubo bubo (2002)
• Bright Cecilia: Variations on a Theme by Purcell for orchestra (2002)
• Chorale for orchestra (2002)
• Concerto for orchestra (2003)
• Mano a mano for guitar (2004)
• Ottoni for brass ensemble (2005)
• Sculpture for orchestra (2005)
• Concerto for violin and orchestra (2006)
• "Koncertstück" for cello and piano (2006)

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Sources

• Stenius, Caterina. 2006. Chaconne: En bok om Magnus Lindberg och den nya musiken. Med verkförteckning av Risto Nieminen. Helsinki: Söderströms. ISBN 951-52-2356-3

External links

• Entry at the Finnish Music Information Centre
• Interview with Lindberg conducted by Kirk Noreen and Joshua Cody in 1999.