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Fartein Valen

Fartein Valen
Norwegian composer and teacher. He enrolled in the University of Christiania (Oslo) to study language and literature but soon switched to music, studying theory with Catharinus Elling at the conservatory. After graduating as an organist ( 1909 ), he studied further with Bruch , among others, in Berlin. In 1924 he composed a Piano Trio which established an individual form of atonality independent of Schoenberg's , whose Serenade appeared in the same year. Valen's approach was derived from Bach , from whose music he evolved a polyphonic technique of dissonant counterpoint. Initially, Valen's works were on a small scale: songs (some with orchestra), chamber music, choral pieces, and nine orchestral poems; the first of his five symphonies (the last is unfinished) appeared in 1939 . His Violin Concerto ( 1940 ), like Berg's , incorporates a Bach chorale in its finale; it is short, but powerfully moving in its elegiac concentration.
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Valen: Symphony No. 1, Op. 30
Composed: Jan 1939
Valen: Symphony No. 2, Op. 40
Composed: Jan 1944
Valen: Symphony No. 3, Op. 41
Composed: Jan 1946
Valen: Variations for piano, Op. 23
Composed: Jan 1936
Valen: Pastorale for orchestra, Op. 11
Composed: Jan 1930
Valen: Le Cimetiere Marin for orchestra, Op. 20
Composed: Jan 1934
Valen: Nenia for orchestra No. 1, Op. 18
Composed: Jan 1932
Valen: Sonetto di Michelangelo, for orchestra, Op. 17/1
Composed: Jan 1932
Valen: Cantico di ringraziamento, for orchestra, Op. 17/2
Composed: Jan 1933
Valen: Concerto for violin&orchestra, Op. 37
Composed: Jan 1940
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