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Allan Pettersson

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Gustaf Allan Pettersson{{needs IPA|lang=sv|date=December 2024}} (19 September 1911 – 20 June 1980) was a Swedish composer and violist. He is considered one of the 20th century's most important Swedish composers and was described as one of the last great symphonists, often compared to Gustav Mahler.{{sfn|Tadday|2013|p=3}}{{sfn|Kube|1996|p=9}}{{sfn|Hanne|1995}}{{rp|3}}{{cite news |last=Lambton |first=Christopher |date=7 November 1993 |title=Mahler and a Swedish imitator |url= |work=The Times |location=London}} His music can hardly be confused with other 20th-century works. In the final decade of his life, his symphonies (typically one-movement works) developed an international following, particularly in Germany and Sweden.{{sfn|Knust|2013}} Of these, his best known work is Symphony No. 7. His music later found success in the United States.{{rp|7}} The conductors Antal Doráti and Sergiu Comissiona premiered and recorded several of his symphonies. Pettersson's song cycle Barefoot Songs influenced many of his compositions. Doráti arranged eight of the Barefoot Songs. Birgit Cullberg produced three ballets based on Pettersson's music.

Pettersson studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's conservatory. For more than a decade, he was a violist in the Stockholm Concert Society; after retiring he devoted himself exclusively to composition. Later in his life, he experienced rheumatoid arthritis. Pettersson was awarded the Swedish royal medal Litteris et Artibus.

Biography

=Early life=

Born on 19 September 1911,{{Cite book |title=Allan Pettersson Jahrbuch |date=1986 |publisher=Pfau Verlag |isbn=978-3-89727-192-0 |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |series=1986a |location=Saarbrücken |page=7 |language=German |chapter=Stichworte zur Biographie}} Gustaf Allan Pettersson was the youngest of four children.{{sfn|Broman|2002|p=532}} His father, Karl Viktor Pettersson (1875–1952),{{sfn|Aare|1995}}{{sfn|Barkefors|1990|p=27}} was a violent, alcoholic blacksmith, and his mother, Ida Paulina (née Svenson) (1876–1960), was a dressmaker.{{sfn|Aare|1995}}{{sfn|Barkefors|1990|p=27}} Pettersson was born at Granhammar manor in Västra Ryd parish in the Uppland province of Sweden. He grew up poor{{Cite news |last=Zakariasen |first=Bill |date=2 August 1979 |title=The endurance of Pettersson |page=65 |work=Daily News |location=New York |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51576461/daily-news/ |access-date=18 May 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=29 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729072615/https://www.newspapers.com/article/51576461/daily-news/ |url-status=live }} in Stockholm's Södermalm district,{{sfn|Barkefors|1990}} where he lived during his whole life.{{sfn|Hanne|1995}} He once said: {{blockquote|I wasn't born under a piano, I didn't spend my childhood with my father, the composer... no, I learnt how to work white-hot iron with the smith's hammer. My father was a smith who may have said no to God, but not to alcohol. My mother was a pious woman who sang and played with her four children.{{Cite journal |last1=Pettersson |first1=Allan |last2=Hammar |first2=Sigvard |date=5 March 1972 |title=Musiken gör livet uthärdligt [intervju] |journal=Dagens Nyheter |language=Swedish}} cited in {{Cite AV media notes |title=Pettersson: Symphony No. 3 & 4 |others=Alun Francis and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken |year=1994 |first=Andreas K. W. |last=Meyer |page=23 |type=booklet |oclc=33168153 |publisher=CPO 999 223–2 |location=Georgsmarienhütte, Germany}}}}

With his parents and siblings, Pettersson lived in a damp, one-room basement apartment with bars on the window.{{sfn|Nicolin|1994|p=11}} When he was 10, he bought a cheap violin with money he earned from selling Christmas cards and taught himself to play it. Even the beatings he received from his father and the threat of reform school could not diminish his interest in music.{{Cite AV media notes |title=Pettersson: Symphony No. 7 |url=https://www.eclassical.com/shop/17115/art16/4747716-1141a5-booklet-999190-2.pdf |others=Gerd Albrecht, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg |year=1992 |first=Andreas K. W. |last=Meyer |page=10 |type=booklet |oclc=716455566 |publisher=CPO 999 190–2 |location=Georgsmarienhütte, Germany |access-date=8 May 2021 |archive-date=10 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510143552/https://www.eclassical.com/shop/17115/art16/4747716-1141a5-booklet-999190-2.pdf |url-status=live }} Through strict self-discipline and with the help of music, Pettersson freed himself from his social misery and difficult family circumstances. Aged 14, he finished elementary school and took up full-time practice on the violin.{{Cite web |last=Shanks |first=Mark |date=19 September 1911 |title=Composers – Pettersson |url=http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/acc/pettersson.php |access-date=7 May 2021 |website=Classical Net |archive-date=6 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506193754/https://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/acc/pettersson.php |url-status=live }}{{sfn|Aare|1995}} He later made two unsuccessful attempts to enter the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's conservatory.{{sfn|Rapoport|1978|p=110}}

In 1930, Pettersson began studying violin and later the viola, as well as counterpoint and harmony, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's conservatory (Royal College of Music, Stockholm). At the beginning of World War II, he was in Paris, studying the viola with the French violist Maurice Vieux. Pettersson won the Jenny Lind scholarship prize in 1938, using it to study abroad.{{sfn|Kube|2013|p=11}}{{sfn|Barkefors|1994}}

=Later life=

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During the 1940s, Pettersson worked as a violist in the Stockholm Concert Society (later the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra). He also studied composition with the composer and conductor Karl-Birger Blomdahl, orchestration with the conductor Tor Mann, and counterpoint with organist and composer Otto Olsson.{{sfn|Aare|1995}} In 1943, he married a physiotherapist, Gudrun Tyra Charlotta Gustafsson (1921–2017).{{sfn|Aare|1995}}{{Cite web |date=16 October 1921 |title=Dödsannonser från hela landet |url=https://www.familjesidan.se/cases/gudrun-adeb05fc-b853-4360-8329-c2479dc2c31d/funeral-notices |access-date=7 May 2021 |website=Familjesidan.se |language=sv |archive-date=10 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510142359/https://www.familjesidan.se/cases/gudrun-adeb05fc-b853-4360-8329-c2479dc2c31d/funeral-notices |url-status=live }}

In September 1951, Pettersson went to Paris to study composition and was a student of composers René Leibowitz, Arthur Honegger, Olivier Messiaen, and Darius Milhaud.{{sfn|Aare|1995}}{{sfn|Fischer|2013|p=41}}{{sfn|Nicolin|1994|p=11}} He returned to Sweden at the end of 1952. In the early 1950s, he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.{{Cite journal |last=Meyer |first=Andreas K. W. |author-link=Andreas K. W. Meyer |year=1991 |title=Des Menschen Stimme |journal=Fono Forum |volume=91 |issue=6 |pages=24–31 |issn=0015-6140}}{{Cite journal |last=Leden |first=Ido |year=2011 |title=Reumatisk sjukdom och konstnärligt skapande: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Raoul Dufy, Allan Pettersson |journal=Reuma Bulletinen—tidskrift för Svensk Reumatologisk Förening |language=Swedish |volume=83 |issue=4/2011 |pages=21–23}}{{efn|Other sources say 1963.}} He gave up playing the viola and began devoting his life to composition. In 1954, he received an annual state composition grant for his first time.{{sfn|Tadday|2013|p=111}}

By the time of his Symphony No. 5, completed in 1962, his mobility and health were compromised considerably.{{sfn|Rapoport|1978|p=114}}{{Cite AV media notes |title=Pettersson: Vox humana, Rosenberg: Dagdrivaren |others=Stig Westerberg, Marianne Mellnäs, Margot Rödin, Sven-Erik Alexandersson, Erland Hagegård, Swedish Radio Choir, and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra |year=1994 |first=Leif |last=Aare |page=6 |type=booklet |oclc=705252024 |publisher=BIS 55 |location=Djursholm}} In 1964, the government granted him a lifelong guaranteed income.{{sfn|Kube|1996|p=14}} His greatest success came a few years later with his {{ill|Symphony No. 7 (Pettersson)|lt=Symphony No. 7|sv|Symfoni nr 7 (Allan Pettersson)|nl|Symfonie nr. 7 (Pettersson)}} (1966),{{Cite web |last=Bose |first=Sudip |date=24 August 2017 |title=Who the Hell Is Allan Pettersson? |url=https://theamericanscholar.org/who-the-hell-is-allan-pettersson/ |access-date=4 March 2019 |website=The American Scholar |location=Washington |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044135/https://theamericanscholar.org/who-the-hell-is-allan-pettersson/ |url-status=live }} which premiered on 13 October 1968 in Stockholm Concert Hall with Antal Doráti conducting the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.{{sfn|Kube|2013|p=15}} A recording of his seventh symphony, with the same conductor and orchestra, was released in 1969. It was a breakthrough, establishing his international reputation, and he received two Swedish Grammis in 1970.{{rp|7}} The conductors Antal Doráti and Sergiu Comissiona premiered and made first recordings of several of Pettersson's symphonies and contributed to his rise to fame during the 1970s.{{sfn|Doráti|1986}}{{sfn|Comissiona|Ollefs|1986}}

Pettersson was hospitalized for nine months in 1970, soon after the composition of his Symphony No. 9, his longest symphony. He began writing the condensed Symphony No. 10 (1972) from his sickbed.{{sfn|Ollefs|1989}}{{sfn|Pettersson|1989a}} Pettersson was admitted to Karolinska Hospital, because of a life-threatening kidney ailment.{{Cite AV media notes |title=Pettersson: Symphony No. 10 & 11 |others=Alun Francis and Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR |year=1997 |first=Andreas K. W. |last=Meyer |page=16 |type=booklet |oclc=38871098 |publisher=CPO 999 285–2 |location=Georgsmarienhütte, Germany}} He recovered, but rheumatoid arthritis confined him most of the time to his fourth-floor apartment in a building with no elevator.{{efn|Pettersson and his wife lived for 30 years in this apartment.{{sfn|Caron|2006|p=24}}}}{{Cite journal |last=Hammar |first=Sigvard |date=19 January 1980 |title=Vår store kompositör |journal=Dagens Nyheter |language=Swedish}} cited in Kube 2013, p. 19.{{sfn|Berggren|Höglind|Källström|1979}} In 1975, after a dispute about a change in a concert program for an American tour, the Stockholm Philharmonic was forbidden to perform works by Pettersson "for all time". The ban was lifted in 1976.{{sfn|Pettersson|1989b|p=10}}{{Cite AV media notes |title=Pettersson: Vox Humana, 6 Sånger |others=Hellgren, Grevelius, Thimander, Högström, Musica Vitae, Ensemble SYD, Daniel Hansson |url=https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/CX9286.pdf |year=2019 |first=Andreas K.W. |last=Meyer |type=booklet |publisher=cpo 999 286–2 |location=Georgsmarienhütte, Germany |access-date=21 April 2021 |archive-date=21 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421151438/https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/CX9286.pdf |url-status=live }} Pettersson was awarded the Litteris et Artibus, a Swedish royal medal established in 1853, in 1977.{{sfn|Aare|1995}} In autumn 1978,{{efn|Other sources state 1976.}} he moved to a state living quarters.{{sfn|Kube|2013|p=16}}{{sfn|Berggren|Höglind|Källström|1979}} He began writing his seventeenth symphony, but died, at age 68,{{cite news |last= |first= |date=23 July 1980 |title=Mr Allan Pettersson, Obituary |url= |work=The Times |location=London |issue=60684 |page=16}} in Stockholm's Maria Magdalena parish before finishing it. He is buried in the Högalid Church columbarium.{{Cite web |date=19 September 1911 |title=Gravar.se |url=http://gravar.se/en/forsamling/hogalids-forsamling/forsamlingens-kolumbarium/0/42/page/1/gustaf-allan-pettersson |access-date=20 April 2021 |website=Gravar.se |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420165104/http://gravar.se/en/forsamling/hogalids-forsamling/forsamlingens-kolumbarium/0/42/page/1/gustaf-allan-pettersson |url-status=live }}{{Cite AV media notes |title=Pettersson: Symphony No. 5 & 16 |others=Alun Francis, John-Edward Kelly, and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken |year=1996 |first=Andreas K. W. |last=Meyer |page=19 |type=booklet |oclc=638281199 |publisher=CPO 999 284–2 |location=Georgsmarienhütte, Germany}}

Music

Pettersson's music can be compared to Mahler's symphonic output, especially in the magnificent design and the passion and dynamism.{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Gustaf Allan Pettersson |encyclopedia=Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians |publisher=Schirmer |date=2001}} The symphonic eccentric Pettersson is not an avant-gardist.{{sfn|Hanne|1995}} His kinetic{{sfn|Stoïanova|1986|p=26}} and organic development of musical matter{{sfn|Stoïanova|1986|p=28}} uses traditional means of expression.{{sfn|Stoïanova|1986|p=32}} Basic motifs are constantly being changed and developed.{{sfn|Hanne|1995}} Pettersson's writing is very strenuous and often has many simultaneous polyphonic lines.{{Cite news |last=Matthes |first=Werner |date=19 September 2011 |title=Musik: Entdeckung eines schwedischen Komponisten |language=de |work=Nordwest Zeitung |url=https://www.nwzonline.de/kultur/entdeckung-eines-schwedischen-komponisten_a_1,0,582350766.html |access-date=20 April 2021 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420075427/https://www.nwzonline.de/kultur/entdeckung-eines-schwedischen-komponisten_a_1,0,582350766.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Köhler |first=Kai |date=24 April 2021 |title=Das Schlagzeug lärmt ... |url=https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/401177.klassische-musik-das-schlagzeug-l%C3%A4rmt.html |access-date=25 April 2021 |website=junge Welt |language=de |archive-date=25 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425092609/https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/401177.klassische-musik-das-schlagzeug-l%C3%A4rmt.html |url-status=live }} His symphonies end on common major or minor chords{{Cite AV media notes |title=Pettersson: Symphony No. 5 & 7 |others=Christian Lindberg, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra |year=2018 |first=Per-Henning |last=Olsson |type=booklet |url=https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/BI2240.pdf |oclc=1034638954 |publisher=BIS-2240 |location=Åkersberga, Sweden |access-date=20 April 2021 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420081225/https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/BI2240.pdf |url-status=live }}{{rp|5}}—but tonality, which depends on some sense, however attenuated, of tonal progression, is found mostly in slower sections. This can be shown at the openings and endings of his 6th and 7th symphonies, and the end of his 9th. Overwhelmingly serious in tone, often dissonant, his music rises to ferocious climaxes, relieved, especially in his later works, by lyrical oases ("{{lang|de|lyrische Inseln}}").{{Cite web |last=Ho |first=Derek |date=6 October 2014 |title=Lindberg sets a new reference for Pettersson's Symphonies No. 4 and 16 |url=https://www.resmusica.com/2014/10/06/lindberg-sets-a-new-reference-for-petterssons-symphonies-no-4-and-16/ |access-date=20 April 2021 |website=ResMusica |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420104915/https://www.resmusica.com/2014/10/06/lindberg-sets-a-new-reference-for-petterssons-symphonies-no-4-and-16/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Pettersson, Allan, Würdigung |encyclopedia=MGG Online |publisher=Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart |last=Kube |first=Michael |date=2005 |editor-last=Lütteken |editor-first=Laurenz |language=de}} {{subscription required}}{{sfn|Gülke|1989|p=83}}

Pettersson's music has a very distinctive sound and can hardly be confused with that of any other 20th-century composer.{{sfn|Davis|2007|p=6}} His symphonies, which range from 22 to 70 minutes long,{{sfn|Meyer|1990}} are typically one-movement works.{{Cite news |last=Kiss |first=Mátyás |date=March 2015 |title=Qualvoller, dann triumphaler Weg ins Freie – Christian Lindbergs flammendes Plädoyer für den Sinfoniker Allan Pettersson |language=German |work=neue musikzeitung |location=Regensburg |url=https://www.nmz.de/artikel/qualvoller-dann-triumphaler-weg-ins-freie |access-date=4 March 2019 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803175639/https://www.nmz.de/artikel/qualvoller-dann-triumphaler-weg-ins-freie |url-status=live }}{{Cite AV media notes |title=Pettersson: Symphony No. 4 & 16 |others=Christian Lindberg, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra |year=2014 |first=Per-Henning |last=Olsson |type=booklet |url=https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/BI2110.pdf |oclc=908174896 |publisher=BIS-2110 |location=Åkersberga, Sweden |access-date=20 April 2021 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420083827/https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/BI2110.pdf |url-status=live }}{{rp|4}} Pettersson's music is demanding on performers and listeners.{{Cite web |last=Ho |first=Derek |date=2 April 2017 |title=Everything in clear focus: Christian Lindberg in Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 14 |url=https://www.resmusica.com/2017/04/02/everything-in-clear-focus-christian-lindberg-in-allan-petterssons-symphony-no-14/ |access-date=20 April 2021 |website=ResMusica |archive-date=22 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422222933/https://www.resmusica.com/2017/04/02/everything-in-clear-focus-christian-lindberg-in-allan-petterssons-symphony-no-14/ |url-status=live }}

Pettersson quoted songs from his own 24 Barefoot Songs in several of his compositions.{{sfn|Nicolin|1994|p=57, 115}}{{sfn|Kube|2013|p=13}}

Musicologist Ivanka Stoïanova designed a theory of musical space about Pettersson's music.{{sfn|Stoïanova|1986}}{{cite web | title=Publications | website=Ivanka Stoïanova | url=http://www.ivankastoianova.com/Publications.htm | language=fr | access-date=30 May 2023 | archive-date=30 May 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530144237/http://www.ivankastoianova.com/Publications.htm | url-status=live }}

Most of his music has now been recorded at least once and much of it is now available in published scores.{{efn|Pettersson's works have been published by Nordiska Musikförlaget.{{sfn|Meyer|1990}}}}

=Works=

Pettersson began composing songs and smaller chamber works in the 1930s.{{sfn|Meyer|1990|pp=69–70}}

His production from the 1940s includes the song cycle twenty-four Barefoot Songs (1943–1945) based on his poems and a dissonant{{sfn|Pettersson|1952}} concerto for violin and string quartet (1949), which is influenced by Béla Bartók and Paul Hindemith.{{sfn|Krause|1990}}{{sfn|Keuk|2013|p=28}} Pettersson soon found his own compositional style.{{sfn|Hanne|1995}}

In 1951, he created the experimental Seven Sonatas for two Violins. At the same time, he composed the first of his seventeen symphonies, which he left unfinished. This work has been recorded in a performing version prepared by trombonist and conductor Christian Lindberg in 2011.{{Cite AV media |title=Symphony No. 1 & 2 |date=22 August 2011 |last=Christian Lindberg and Norrköping Symphony Orchestra |publisher=BIS 1860 |oclc=749880192 |medium=CD}}

Pettersson about the symphonic output of the 1950s: {{blockquote|No one in the 1950s noticed, that I am always breaking up the structures, that I was creating a whole new symphonic form.{{sfn|Rapoport|1981|p=21}}{{sfn|Stoïanova|1986|p=34}}}}

It took four years to write the conceptual and style-defining Symphony No. 6 (1963–1966).{{sfn|Kube|1996|p=21}} His Symphony No. 7 and Symphony No. 8 (1968–1969) have been recorded more than his other works and are probably his best-known. In the 1970s, he composed two related works about social protest and compassion, the Symphony No. 12 for mixed chorus and orchestra (1973–1974) to poems by Literature Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda with contemporary relevance{{efn|Pettersson chose poems, in Swedish translations, from the poetic cycle Canto General.{{Cite AV media notes |title=Pettersson: Symphony No. 12 'De döda på torget' |url=https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/BI2450.pdf |others=Christian Lindberg and Norrköping Symphony Orchestra |year=2020 |first=Per-Henning |last=Olsson |page=4 |type=booklet |oclc=1231565131 |publisher=BIS-2450 |location=Åkersberga |access-date=31 December 2021 |archive-date=31 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231144524/https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/BI2450.pdf |url-status=live }}}} and the cantata Vox Humana (1974) on texts by Latin American poets. During the prolific last decade of his life, he also wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra (1977–1978, {{abbreviation|rev.|revised}} 1980) written for the violinist Ida Haendel,{{Cite news |last=Siskind |first=Jacob |date=21 February 1980 |title=Haendel triumphed in premiere of Pettersson Violin Concerto |page=29 |work=The Ottawa Journal |location=Ottawa |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51576945/allan-pettersson/ |access-date=18 May 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=29 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729072611/https://www.newspapers.com/article/51576945/allan-pettersson/ |url-status=live }} a Symphony No. 16 (1979) which features a bravura solo part for alto saxophone commissioned by American saxophonist Frederick L. Hemke,{{Cite news |last=Rhein |first=John von |date=12 November 1984 |title=Stockholm shows power |page=70 |work=Chicago Tribune |location=Chicago |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51576743/allan-pettersson/ |access-date=18 May 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=29 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729072547/https://www.newspapers.com/article/51576743/allan-pettersson/ |url-status=live }} and an incomplete, posthumously discovered concerto for viola and orchestra (1979–1980).{{sfn|Kube|2013|p=18}}

Legacy

In 1968–1969, conductor and composer Antal Doráti arranged eight of Pettersson's Barefoot Songs as full-scale orchestral songs.{{sfn|Doráti|1986|p=36}}

Choreographer Birgit Cullberg produced three ballets based on Pettersson's music. {{lang|sv|Rapport}} (1976, Symphony No. 7), {{lang|sv|Vid Urskogens rand}} (1977, Concerto No. 1 for String Orchestra), {{lang|sv|Krigsdanser}} (War Dance) (1979, Symphony No. 9).{{sfn|Caron|2006|p=204}}

The four orchestral sketches "{{lang|de|... das Gesegnete, das Verfluchte}}" (1991) by Peter Ruzicka are a tribute to Pettersson's life and work, quoting sketches of his unfinished Symphony No. 17.{{Cite AV media notes |title=Pettersson: Symphony No. 15, Ruzicka: Das Gesegnete, das Verfluchte |others=Peter Ruzicka and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin |year=1994 |first=Andreas K. W. |last=Meyer |page=22 |type=booklet |oclc=638280608 |publisher=CPO 999 095-2 |location=Georgsmarienhütte, Germany}}

Roy Andersson used the finale of Symphony No. 7 in his short film World of Glory ({{lang|sv|Härlig är jorden}}).{{Cite web |title=Härlig är jorden (1991) |url=http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?itemid=18377&type=MOVIE&iv=Comments |access-date=21 August 2011 |website=Swedish Film Database |publisher=Swedish Film Institute |language=Swedish |archive-date=23 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923100503/http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?itemid=18377&type=MOVIE&iv=Comments |url-status=live }}

After Pettersson's death, the {{lang|de|Internationale Allan Pettersson Gesellschaft}} (International Allan Pettersson Society) issued six yearbooks, Classic Produktion Osnabrück CPO began recording his complete works, and a series of concerts (in 1994–1995) programmed almost all of them.{{Cite Grove|title=Pettersson, (Gustaf) Allan |last=Rapoport |first=Paul |year=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21501 }}{{sfn|Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube|1986b}}{{sfn|Nicolin|1994}}

In 2002, a Swedish Allan Pettersson Society ({{ill|Allan Pettersson-sällskapet|sv}}) has been founded.{{cite web | title=Vill sprida information om kompositören AP | website=Allan Pettersson Sällskapet / The Swedish Allan Pettersson Society | date=17 April 2018 | url=http://allan-pettersson.se/ | language=sv | access-date=26 November 2023 | archive-date=26 November 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126000557/http://allan-pettersson.se/ | url-status=live }}

Awards

  • 1970 {{ill|Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music|sv|Lista över Musikaliska Akademiens ledamöter}} ({{lang|sv|Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien}}), No. 741{{sfn|Aare|1995}}
  • 1977 Litteris et Artibus{{sfn|Aare|1995}}
  • 1979 {{ill|Professors namn|sv}} (Honorary Professorship Royal Swedish Academy of Music){{sfn|Aare|1995}}

Discography

The selected discography includes the original format of the recording and releasing label. Some of the LP releases have been reissued on CD. A 12-CD pack of the Complete Symphonies of Allan Pettersson has been produced by CPO (Classic Produktion Osnabrück) based on recordings of 1984, 1988, 1991{{ndash}}1995, 2004. In 2023, a cycle of all Pettersson symphonies produced by BIS Records was completed.{{cite web | title=Allan Pettersson: Complete Edition Box (17 discs and 4 DVDs plus book) | website=NaxosDirect | url=https://naxosdirect.co.uk/items/allan-pettersson-complete-edition-box-17-discs-and-4-dvds-plus-book-608280 | access-date=24 December 2023 | archive-date=24 December 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231224095744/https://naxosdirect.co.uk/items/allan-pettersson-complete-edition-box-17-discs-and-4-dvds-plus-book-608280 | url-status=live }}{{cite web | title=The Allan Pettersson Project | website=Norrköpings Symfoniorkester | date=14 June 2022 | url=https://www.norrkopingssymfoniorkester.se/english/the-allan-pettersson-project | language=sv | access-date=24 December 2023}}

=Symphonies=

  • Symphony No. 1 (1951) (incomplete){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=66}}{{Cite news |last=Kube |first=Michael |year=2010 |title=Das Unmögliche möglich machen |language=de |work=neue musikzeitung |location=Regensburg |url=https://www.nmz.de/artikel/das-unmoegliche-moeglich-machen |access-date=26 April 2019 |archive-date=26 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426105035/https://www.nmz.de/artikel/das-unmoegliche-moeglich-machen |url-status=live }}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (performing version by Christian Lindberg) (BIS CD) {{OCLC|749880192}}
  • Symphony No. 2 (1952{{ndash}}1953){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=67}}
  • Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stig Westerberg (Swedish Society Discofil LP and CD) {{OCLC|869139542}}
  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alun Francis (CPO CD) {{OCLC|990776807|610619988}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) {{OCLC|749880192}}
  • Symphony No. 3 (1954{{ndash}}1955){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=67}}
  • Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Alun Francis (CPO CD) {{OCLC|874528446}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (BIS CD) {{OCLC|987698874|70480579|875607794}}
  • Symphony No. 4 (1958{{ndash}}1959){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=67}}
  • Göteborgs Symfoniker, Sergiu Comissiona (BIS LP)
  • Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Alun Francis (CPO CD) {{OCLC|874528446}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) {{OCLC|908174896}}
  • Symphony No. 5 (1960{{ndash}}1962){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=67}}
  • Berliner Sibelius Orchester, Andreas Peer Kähler (Bluebell LP and CD) {{OCLC|18877225}}
  • Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Moshe Atzmon (BIS CD) {{OCLC|873743666}}
  • Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Alun Francis (CPO CD) {{OCLC|990243222|1057997291}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) {{OCLC|1034638954}}
  • Symphony No. 6 (1963{{ndash}}1966){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=67}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu (CBS LP) {{OCLC|725553097}}
  • Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Manfred Trojahn (CPO CD) {{OCLC|871953334}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) {{OCLC|945977705|870662801}}
  • Symphony No. 7 (1966{{ndash}}1967){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=67}}{{cite web | title=Schwedisches RSO mit Daniel Harding – Dunkle Gedanken | website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur | date=7 January 2018 | url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/schwedisches-rso-mit-daniel-harding-dunkle-gedanken-100.html | language=de | access-date=31 December 2021 | archive-date=31 December 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231155524/https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/schwedisches-rso-mit-daniel-harding-dunkle-gedanken-100.html | url-status=live }}
  • Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Antal Doráti (Swedish Society Discofil LP and CD/London LP) (Grammis 1970) {{OCLC|872147110|14964319|45586363}}
  • Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Comissiona (Caprice CD) {{OCLC|29620951|977971527}}
  • Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Gerd Albrecht (CPO CD) {{OCLC|60853163|822857094}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (BIS CD) {{OCLC|874923816}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) {{OCLC|1034638954}}
  • Symphony No. 8 (1968{{ndash}}1969){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=67}}
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Comissiona (Polar LP and Deutsche Grammophon LP){{Cite news |last=Cera |first=Stephen |date=24 March 1979 |title=BSO recording is major league in artistic quality |page=7 |work=The Baltimore Sun |location=Baltimore |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51576001/the-baltimore-sun/ |access-date=18 May 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=29 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729072548/https://www.newspapers.com/article/51576001/the-baltimore-sun/ |url-status=live }} {{OCLC|725716693}}
  • Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Thomas Sanderling (CPO CD) {{OCLC|638464541|873571490}}
  • Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Gerd Albrecht (Orfeo CD) {{OCLC|249081425}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (BIS CD) {{OCLC|41557470|317634279}}
  • Symphony No. 9 (1970){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=67}}
  • Göteborgs Symfoniker, Sergiu Comissiona (Philips LP)
  • Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Alun Francis (CPO CD) {{OCLC|1058033816|873438119}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) (Grammis 2015) {{OCLC|995556946}}
  • Symphony No. 10 (1971{{ndash}}1972){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=67}}
  • Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti (EMI LP) {{OCLC|913186819}}
  • NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Alun Francis (CPO CD) {{OCLC|890524210|871969453}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (BIS CD) {{OCLC|41557470|317634279}}
  • Symphony No. 11 (1971{{ndash}}1973){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=67}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (BIS CD) {{OCLC|874492404}}
  • NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Alun Francis (CPO CD) {{OCLC|890524210}}
  • Symphony No. 12 "{{lang|sv|De döda på torget}}" ("The Dead of the Square") (1973{{ndash}}1974){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=67}}
  • Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockholm Philharmonic Chorus, Uppsala University Chamber Choir, Carl Rune Larsson (Caprice LP and CD) {{OCLC|20358824}}
  • Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Choir, Manfred Honeck (CPO CD) {{OCLC|873175780|638445016|70702259}}
  • Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) {{OCLC|1231565131}}
  • Symphony No. 13 (1976){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=68}}
  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alun Francis (CPO CD) {{OCLC|990787167}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) {{OCLC|933602262|928103709}}
  • Symphony No. 14 (1978){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=68}}
  • Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sergiu Comissiona (Phono Suecia CD) {{OCLC|874190019|658765036}}
  • Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Johan M. Arnell (CPO CD) {{OCLC|822857099}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) {{OCLC|973569405}}
  • Symphony No. 15 (1978){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=68}}
  • Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Peter Ruzicka (CPO CD) {{OCLC|33168154}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (BIS CD) {{OCLC|987698874|70480579}}
  • Symphony No. 16 (1979){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=68}}
  • Frederick L. Hemke (Alto saxophone), Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Ahronovitch (Swedish Society Discofil LP and CD) {{OCLC|45586363}}
  • John-Edward Kelly (Alto saxophone), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Alun Francis (CPO CD) {{OCLC|1057997291}}
  • Jörgen Pettersson (Alto saxophone), Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) {{OCLC|908174896}}
  • Symphony No. 17 (1980) (fragment){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=68}}
  • Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS SACD-2290, 2019) {{OCLC|1104057068}}

=Other works=

  • Two Elegies (1934){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=69}}
  • Martin Gelland (Violin), Lennart Wallin (Piano) (BIS CD) {{OCLC|872174277}}
  • 6 Songs (1935) (text by Gunnar Björling et al.).{{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=70}}
  • Margot Rödin (Mezzo-soprano), Arnold Östman (Piano) (Swedish Society Discofil LP and CD) {{OCLC|20635303}}
  • Andante espressivo (1938){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=69}}
  • Martin Gelland (Violin), Lennart Wallin (Piano) (BIS CD) {{OCLC|872174277}}
  • Romanza (1942){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=69}}
  • Martin Gelland (Violin), Lennart Wallin (Piano) (BIS CD) {{OCLC|872174277}}
  • 24 Barefoot Songs ({{lang|sv|Barfotasånger}}) (1943{{ndash}}1945){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=70}}{{Cite web |year=2017 |title=Score Allan Pettersson: Barfotasånger (Barfuss-Lieder) – No. 4, 7 & 8 |url=https://issuu.com/gehrmansmusikforlag/docs/allan_pettersson_barfotasanger__4__ |access-date=23 May 2019 |website=issuu |publisher=Gehrmans Musikforlag |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307202051/https://issuu.com/gehrmansmusikforlag/docs/allan_pettersson_barfotasanger__4__ |url-status=live }}
  • Erik Saedén (Baritone), Arnold Östman (Piano) (Swedish Society Discofil LP and CD) {{OCLC|7385656}}
  • 8 Barefoot Songs ({{lang|sv|Barfotasånger}}) orchestrated by Antal Dorati
  • Anders Larsson (Baritone), Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD){{cite web | url=https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7979065--pettersson-eight-barefoot-songs | title=Pettersson - Eight Barefoot Songs | access-date=21 March 2024 | archive-date=21 March 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321001600/https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7979065--pettersson-eight-barefoot-songs | url-status=live }}
  • Lamento for Piano (1945){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=69}}
  • Volker Banfield (CPO CD) {{OCLC|1011487634}}
  • Lennart Wallin (BIS CD) {{OCLC|872174277}}
  • Concerto No. 1 for Violin and String Quartet (1949){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=69}}
  • Ulf Hoelscher (Violin), Mandelring-Quartett (CPO CD) {{OCLC|725519583}}
  • Concerto No. 1 for String Orchestra (1949{{ndash}}1950){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=68}}
  • Musica Vitae, Petter Sundkvist (Caprice CD) {{OCLC|80593693}}
  • Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD)
  • Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Johannes Goritzki (CPO CD) {{OCLC|638280739|32319319}}
  • Seven Sonatas for two Violins (1951){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=69}}
  • Duo Gelland (BIS CD) {{OCLC|872174277|45496385}}
  • Concerto No. 2 for String Orchestra (1956){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=68}}
  • Musica Vitae, Petter Sundkvist (Caprice CD) {{OCLC|80593693|32319319}}
  • Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD)
  • Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Johannes Goritzki (CPO CD) {{OCLC|638280739}}
  • Concerto No. 3 for String Orchestra (1956{{ndash}}1957){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=68}}
  • Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) {{OCLC|871378168}}
  • Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Johannes Goritzki (CPO CD) {{OCLC|638280739|32319319}}
  • Symphonic Movement (1973) (commissioned by Swedish Radio TV channel TV1 for a film essay by Boris Engström){{Cite book |last=Steen |first=Renske |url=https://www.konzerthaus-dortmund.de/page/MediaLib/file/Programmheft/201819/Prog-Swedish-SO.pdf |title=Programmheft Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra |date=25 November 2018 |publisher=Konzerthaus Dortmund |location=Dortmund |language=German |type=booklet |access-date=25 February 2019 |archive-date=26 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226111217/https://www.konzerthaus-dortmund.de/page/MediaLib/file/Programmheft/201819/Prog-Swedish-SO.pdf |url-status=live }}{{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=68}}{{Cite web |year=2018 |title=Score Allan Pettersson: Symfonisk sats (Symphonic Movement) |url=https://issuu.com/gehrmansmusikforlag/docs/allan_pettersson_symfonisk_sats |access-date=23 May 2019 |website=issuu |publisher=Gehrmans Musikforlag |archive-date=28 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228105626/https://issuu.com/gehrmansmusikforlag/docs/allan_pettersson_symfonisk_sats |url-status=live }}{{cite web | title=Große Romantik in der Elbphilharmonie | website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur | date=11 January 2019 | url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/schwedisches-rundfunk-sinfonierorchester-grosse-romantik-in-100.html | language=de | access-date=31 December 2021 | archive-date=31 December 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231155518/https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/schwedisches-rundfunk-sinfonierorchester-grosse-romantik-in-100.html | url-status=live }}
  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alun Francis (CPO CD) {{OCLC|610619988}}
  • Vox Humana (1974){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=71}}
  • Marianne Mellnas (Soprano), Margot Rodin (Alto), Sven-Erik Alexandersson (Tenor), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Chorus, Stig Westerberg (BIS CD) {{OCLC|778517932}}
  • Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra (1977{{ndash}}1978){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=69}}
  • Ida Haendel (Violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (Caprice LP and CD) {{OCLC|20635424}}
  • Isabelle van Keulen (Violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (CPO CD) {{OCLC|873599887}}
  • Ulf Wallin (Violin), Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS SACD-2290, 2019) {{OCLC|1104057068}}
  • Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1979{{ndash}}1980){{sfn|Meyer|1990|p=69}}
  • Nobuko Imai (Viola), Malmö Symphony Orchestra, {{ill|Lev Markiz|nl}} (BIS CD) {{OCLC|873743666}}

Writings

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  • {{Cite journal |last=Pettersson |first=Allan |year=1952 |title=Dissonance—douleur |journal=Musique Contemporaine—Revue Internationale |language=French |location=Paris |volume=4–6 |pages=235–236 |oclc=702671430}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Pettersson |first=Allan |author-mask=2 |title=Allan Pettersson Jahrbuch |date=1988 |publisher=Pfau Verlag |isbn=978-3-89727-194-4 |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |series=1988 |location=Saarbrücken |pages=7–13 |language=French, German |chapter=Dissonance—douleur = Dissonanz—Schmerz |orig-year=1952}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Pettersson |first=Allan |author-mask=2 |year=1955 |title=Den konstnärliga lögnen |journal=Musiklivet |language=Swedish |location=Stockholm |publisher=Sveriges körförbund |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=26–27 |issn=0027-4836}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Pettersson |first=Allan |author-mask=2 |year=1968 |title=Identification med det oanseliga [Letter to Leif Aare] |journal=Nutida Musik |language=Swedish |location=Stockholm |publisher=International Society for Contemporary Music, Svenska sektionen |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=55–56 |issn=1652-6082}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Pettersson |first1=Allan |author-mask=2 |title=Allan Pettersson Jahrbuch |last2=Thoor |first2=Alf |last3=Brandel |first3=Åke |last4=Boldemann |first4=Marcus |last5=Wilson |first5=Berit |last6=Håstad |first6=Disa |last7=Carlsson |first7=Ann-Cathrin |last8=Aare |first8=Leif |last9=Åstrand |first9=Hans |date=1989b |publisher=Pfau Verlag |isbn=978-3-89727-195-1 |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |series=1989 |location=Saarbrücken |pages=10–44 |language=German |chapter=Allan Petterssons Boykott der Stockholmer Philharmoniker 1975 |ref={{sfnref|Pettersson|1989b}} |display-authors=1 |first10=Johannes |last10=Norrby |first11=Helge |last11=Almquist |first12=Gennady |last12=Rozhdestvensky}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Pettersson |first=Allan |author-mask=2 |title=Allan Pettersson Jahrbuch |date=1989a |publisher=Pfau Verlag |isbn=978-3-89727-195-1 |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |series=1989 |location=Saarbrücken |pages=45–48 |language=German |chapter=Randnotizen zur 10. Symphonie [Karolinska Hospital Diary 1970–1971]}}

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Notes

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References

=Citations=

{{Reflist}}

=Documentary film=

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  • {{Cite AV media |title=Människans röst |last=Berggren |first=Peter |type=DVD |language=Swedish, English |publisher=BIS 2038 |year=1979 |trans-title=Vox Humana—The Voice of Man |place=Stockholm |oclc=907810041 |quote=Allan Pettersson, composer. A documentary 1973–1978. |last2=Höglind |first2=Tommy |last3=Källström |first3=Gunnar |publication-date=2013}}
  • {{Cite AV media |title=Sången om livet |last=Berggren |first=Peter |type=DVD |language=Swedish, English |publisher=BIS 2230 |year=1987 |trans-title=The song of life |place=Stockholm |oclc=985346501 |quote=Sången om livet. Det förbannade! Det välsignade! Allan Pettersson in conversation 1973–1980 with Sigvard Hammar, Tommy Höglind, Gunnar Källström and Peter Berggren. Swedish Television (SVT). |publication-date=2017}}
  • {{Cite AV media |title=Vem fan är Allan Pettersson? |last=Hammar |first=Sigvard |type=DVD |language=Swedish, English |publisher=BIS 2110 |year=1974 |trans-title=Who the hell is Allan Pettersson? |place=Stockholm |oclc=899741820 |quote=An interview with the composer. Swedish Television (SVT). |publication-date=2014}}

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=Bibliography=

{{refbegin}}

  • {{Cite book |last=Aare |first=Leif |title=Allan Pettersson |url=https://archive.org/details/allanpettersson0000aare |date=1978 |publisher=Norstedt & Söners förlag |isbn=978-91-1-783412-8 |location=Stockholm |language=Swedish }}
  • {{Cite encyclopedia |year=1995 |title=G Allan Pettersson |encyclopedia=Svenskt biografiskt lexikon |publisher=Riksarchivet |location=Stockholm |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/artikel/7223 |access-date=21 April 2015 |last=Aare |first=Leif |volume=29 |page=242 |language=Swedish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008214106/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=7223 |archive-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=live |issue=1995–1997}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Barkefors |first=Laila |title=Allan Pettersson Jahrbuch |date=1990 |publisher=Pfau Verlag |isbn=978-3-89727-196-8 |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |series=1990 |location=Saarbrücken |pages=25–36 |language=German |chapter=Glauben Sie mir, die Eindrücke aus der Kindheit sind die kostbarste Gabe, die wir mit uns ins Leben bringen. Über Allan Pettersson und Södermalm}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Barkefors |first=Laila |title=Allan Pettersson (1911–1980). Texte—Materialien—Analysen |date=1994 |publisher=von Bockel Verlag |isbn=978-3-928770-30-9 |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |location=Hamburg |pages=71–80 |language=German |chapter=Allan Pettersson: der Jenny-Lind-Stipendiat in Paris 1939–40}}
  • {{Cite thesis |last=Barkefors |first=Laila |title=Gallret och stjärnan. Allan Petterssons väg genom Barfotasånger till symfoni |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Gothenburg |isbn=978-91-85974-34-4 |language=Swedish |year=1995 |trans-title=The grating and the star. Allan Pettersson's path through "Barfotasånger" to symphony}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Barkefors |first=Laila |title=Allan Pettersson: det brinner en sol inom oss—en tonsättares liv och verk |date=1999 |publisher=Sveriges Radios Förlag |isbn=978-91-522-1822-8 |location=Stockholm |language=Swedish}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Bergendal |first=Göran |title=33 svenska komponister |date=1972 |publisher=Lindblad |isbn=978-91-32-40374-3 |location=Stockholm |language=Swedish}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Broman |first=Per Fredrik |title=New music of the Nordic countries |date=2002 |publisher=Pendragon Press musicological series |isbn=978-1-57647-019-0 |editor-last=White |editor-first=John David |location=Hillsdale, New York |pages=445–588 |language=en |chapter=New Music of Sweden |editor-last2=Christensen |editor-first2=Jean}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Caron |first=Jean-Luc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6bwReDI0VwC&pg=PA5 |title=Allan Pettersson: Destin, douleur et musique |date=2006 |publisher=l'Age d'homme |isbn=978-2-8251-3639-3 |location=Lausanne |language=French |author-link=Jean-Luc Caron |access-date=15 November 2021 |archive-date=29 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729072607/https://books.google.com/books?id=G6bwReDI0VwC&pg=PA5 |url-status=live }}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Comissiona |first1=Sergiu |title=Allan Pettersson Jahrbuch |last2=Ollefs |first2=Christian |date=1986 |publisher=Pfau Verlag |isbn=978-3-89727-192-0 |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |series=1986 |location=Saarbrücken |pages=37–42 |language=German |chapter=Die Fragen kommen wieder |author-link=Sergiu Comissiona}}
  • {{Cite thesis |last=Davis |first=Colin |title=Toward a Unified Whole: Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 5 |date=August 2007 |degree=PhD |publisher=University of North Texas |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3983/ |isbn=978-0-549-31891-0 |location=Denton, Texas |access-date=20 April 2021 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420131202/https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3983/ |url-status=live }}
  • {{Cite book |last=Doráti |first=Antal |title=Allan Pettersson Jahrbuch |date=1986 |publisher=Pfau Verlag |isbn=978-3-89727-192-0 |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |series=1986 |location=Saarbrücken |pages=35–36 |language=German |chapter=Erinnerungen an Allan Pettersson |author-link=Antal Doráti}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Fischer |first=Jens Malte |title=Allan Pettersson, Musik-Konzepte (edition text+kritik) |date=2013 |publisher=Richard Boorberg Verlag |isbn=978-3-86916-275-1 |editor-last=Tadday |editor-first=Ulrich |location=München |pages=40–52 |language=German |chapter=Con accento doloroso. Eine Annäherung an Allan Pettersson und an die 6. Sinfonie}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Gülke |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Gülke |title=Allan Pettersson Jahrbuch |date=1989 |publisher=Pfau Verlag |isbn=978-3-89727-195-1 |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |series=1989 |location=Saarbrücken |pages=78–84 |language=de |chapter=Ein Stück freien Himmels}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Hanne |first=Krister |title=Nordeuropa-Forum: Zeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur |date=1995 |publisher=Berlin Verlag |volume=5 |location=Berlin |pages=41–43 |chapter=Allan Pettersson: Später Ruhm für einen Querkopf |chapter-url=https://dibiki.ub.uni-kiel.de/viewer/image/PPN779336275/256/ |access-date=20 April 2021 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420073849/https://dibiki.ub.uni-kiel.de/viewer/image/PPN779336275/256/ |url-status=live }}
  • {{Cite book |title=Allan Pettersson Jahrbuch |date=1986b |publisher=Pfau Verlag |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |location=Saarbrücken |language=German |oclc=186170367 |orig-year=1986–2004}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Keuk |first=Alexander |title=Allan Pettersson, Musik-Konzepte (edition text+kritik) |date=2013 |publisher=Richard Boorberg Verlag |isbn=978-3-86916-275-1 |editor-last=Tadday |editor-first=Ulrich |location=München |pages=23–39 |language=German |chapter=Festhalten und Loslassen. Zur Konstituierung einer kompositorischen Handschrift in der Musik von Allan Pettersson |author-link=Alexander Keuk}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Knust |first=Martin |title=Allan Pettersson, Musik-Konzepte (edition text+kritik) |date=2013 |publisher=Richard Boorberg Verlag |isbn=978-3-86916-275-1 |editor-last=Tadday |editor-first=Ulrich |location=München |pages=73–93 |language=German |chapter=Die Rezeption von Allan Petterssons Werk in Schweden und Deutschland: ein Vergleich}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Krause |first=Andreas |title=Allan Pettersson Jahrbuch |date=1990 |publisher=Pfau Verlag |isbn=978-3-89727-196-8 |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |series=1990 |location=Saarbrücken |pages=38–53 |language=German |chapter=Allan Petterssons Konzert für Violine und Streichquartett: Eine Studie zur Bartók Rezeption im Frühwerk}}
  • {{Cite book |title=Allan Pettersson (1911–1980): Texte—Materialien—Analysen |date=1994 |publisher=Von Bockel Verlag |isbn=978-3-928770-30-9 |editor-last=Kube |editor-first=Michael |location=Hamburg |language=German}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Kube |first=Michael |author-link=:de:Michael Kube |title=Allan Pettersson Symphonie Nr. 8 |date=1996 |publisher=Florian Noetzel |isbn=978-3-7959-0708-2 |location=Wilhelmshaven |language=German}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Kube |first=Michael |title=Allan Pettersson, Musik-Konzepte (edition text+kritik) |date=2013 |publisher=Richard Boorberg Verlag |isbn=978-3-86916-275-1 |editor-last=Tadday |editor-first=Ulrich |location=München |pages=5–22 |language=German |chapter=Då behöver man distansen [Da braucht man Distanz]. Biografie und Werk zwischen Selbstinszenierung und Reflexion}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Kube |first=Michael |title=Allan Pettersson |publisher=Atlantis |year=2014 |isbn=978-91-7353-541-0 |publication-place=Stockholm |url=https://www.musikaliskaakademien.se/download/18.57af971017b4ea0dbc95ac28/1631890060600/Kube_Allan_Pettersson.pdf |language=sv |oclc=928458196 |access-date=26 May 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526103701/https://www.musikaliskaakademien.se/download/18.57af971017b4ea0dbc95ac28/1631890060600/Kube_Allan_Pettersson.pdf |url-status=live }}
  • {{Cite book |last=Meyer |first=Andreas K. W. |title=Allan Pettersson Jahrbuch |date=1990 |publisher=Pfau Verlag |isbn=978-3-89727-196-8 |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |series=1990 |location=Saarbrücken |pages=66–73 |language=German |chapter=Allan Pettersson Werkverzeichnis (revidierter systematischer und chronologischer Katalog)}}
  • {{Cite book |title=Musik von Allan Pettersson: Konzerte 1994/95 und ein Symposion |date=1994 |publisher=Sekretariat für gemeinsame Kulturarbeit in Nordrhein-Westfalen |editor-last=Nicolin |editor-first=Mechthild |location=Wuppertal |language=German |oclc=724739529}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Ollefs |first=Christian |title=Allan Pettersson Jahrbuch |date=1989 |publisher=Pfau Verlag |isbn=978-3-89727-195-1 |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |series=1989 |location=Saarbrücken |pages=49–51 |language=German |chapter=Epilog (Subjektive Begegnung mit einem Phänomen)}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Rapoport |first=Paul |title=Opus est. Six composers from Northern Europe |date=1978 |publisher=Kahn & Averill |isbn=978-0-900707-48-3 |edition=1st |location=London |pages=109–132 |chapter=Chapter V: Allan Pettersson and his Symphony No. 2 |author-link=Paul Rapoport (music researcher)}} (1985). (2nd ed.). New York: Taplinger. {{ISBN|978-0-8008-5845-2}}.
  • {{Cite book |last=Rapoport |first=Paul |title=Allan Pettersson |date=1981 |publisher=Swedish Music Information Center |isbn=978-91-85470-36-5 |location=Stockholm}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Stoïanova |first=Ivanka |title=Allan Pettersson Jahrbuch |publisher=Pfau Verlag |year=1986 |isbn=978-3-89727-192-0 |editor-last=Im Auftrag der Internationalen Allan-Pettersson-Gesellschaft von Michael Kube |series=1986 |location=Saarbrücken |pages=17–35 |language=de |chapter=Die Raum-Symphonik von Allan Pettersson}}
  • {{Cite book |title=Allan Pettersson, Musik-Konzepte (edition text+kritik) |date=2013 |publisher=Richard Boorberg Verlag |isbn=978-3-86916-275-1 |editor-last=Tadday |editor-first=Ulrich |location=München |language=de}}

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External links

  • [http://www.pettersson100.de International Allan Pettersson Society – IAPG] {{in lang|de}}
  • [http://allan-pettersson.se/ Allan Pettersson Sällskapet / The Swedish Allan Pettersson Society] {{in lang|sv}}
  • [http://homepages.uc.edu/~cauthep/allan.html Paul Cauthen's Allan Pettersson Page]
  • [http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/acc/pettersson.html Mark Shanks's Allan Pettersson Pages]
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