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STM–SJM 2015 SVENSK TIDS KRIFT FÖR MUSIKFORSKNING SWEDISH JOURNAL OF MUSIC RESEARCH STM 2015 omslag_VARIANT_sv.indd 1 2016-04-27 14:22 STM–SJM Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning Swedish Journal of Music Research 2015 Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning vol. 95–2013 1 Försättsblad och innehållsf 2015. (kopia).indd 1 2016-04-13 20:03 2 Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning vol. 95–2013 Försättsblad och innehållsf 2015. (kopia).indd 2 2016-04-13 20:03 STM–SJM Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning vol. 97 Swedish Journal of Music Research Vol. 2 2015 SVENSKA SAMFUNDET FÖR MUSIKFOrsKNING SWEDISH SOCIET Y FOR MUSICOLOGY Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning vol. 95–2013 3 Försättsblad och innehållsf 2015. (kopia).indd 3 2016-04-13 20:03 STM–SJM 2015 / Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning vol. 97/ Swedish Journal of Music Research Vol. 2 Redaktion / Editors Huvudredaktör / Editor-in-chief: Jacob Derkert Redaktör /Editor: Erik Wallrup Redaktionsråd / Advisory board: Alf Björnberg, Johannes Brusila, Bengt Edlund, Karin Eriksson, Johan Fornäs, Erling E. Guldbrandsen, Erkki Huovinen, Jeffrey Kallberg, Annemette Kirkegaard, Lars Lilliestam, Signe Rotter, Øivind Varkøy Adresser / Addresses STM-SJM, c/o Jacob Derkert, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, Stockholms Universitet, SE-106 91 Stockholm [email protected] Recensionsexemplar av musiklitteratur skickas till / Review copies of music literature may be sent to STM–SJM, c/o Jacob Derkert, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, Stockholms universitet, SE-106 91 Stockholm Hemsida / Website: musikforskning.se/stm-sjm/ STM–SJM 2015 är producerad med bidrag från Vetenskapsrådet / STM–SJM 2015 has received financial support from The Swedish Research Council. Alla rättigheter reserveras. / All rights reserved. Graphic design: Anders Bodebeck Page layout: Jacob Derkert Cover picture: Från den stora musikfesten i Stockholm 31 maj-1 juni. Första aftonens konsert å Kungl. Teatern. Fru Jungstedt föredrar Ludvig Normans hymn ”Rosa rorans bonitatem”. Originalteckning för Idun av Hj. Eneroth. (Idun 1906) [Reproduktion: Stadsmuseet i Stockholm]; Aftonbladet 1855. [Reproduktion: Kungliga biblioteket] Printing: exakta ISSN: 2002-021X STM-SJM publiceras löpande i elektronisk form. Se musikforskning.se/stm-sjm/ för uppdaterad information och författarvägledning. STM-SJM is published continuously. Please view musikforskning.se/stm-sjm/ for updated information and author guidelines. 4 Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning vol. 95–2013 Försättsblad och innehållsf 2015. (kopia).indd 4 2016-04-27 19:55 Jacob Derkert Editorial i Ulrik Volgsten Between critic and public: Listening to the musical 1 work in Stockholm during the long 19th century Eva Georgii-Hemming Music listening and matters of equality in music 27 & Victor Kvarnhall education Carola Finkel The revised versions of Kurt Atterberg’s symphonies 45 Cecilia Ferm The music classroom as a local place and a public 61 Thorgersen space: Democratic education towards music as a language of us all Recensioner/Reviews 75 In memoriam Jan Ling 99 Gunnar Larsson 101 Anna Lena Holm 102 Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning vol. 95–2013 5 Försättsblad och innehållsf 2015. (kopia).indd 5 2016-04-13 20:03 6 Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning vol. 95–2013 Försättsblad och innehållsf 2015. (kopia).indd 6 2016-04-13 20:03 Editorial Editorial Welcome to the second printed issue of the Swedish Journal of Music Research/STM–SJM, equivalent to the 97th volume of Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning. STM–SJM is a peer-reviewed journal for music research in various disciplines. Musicology, Music Education Research, and Artistic Research in Music are the three core areas, and research concerning music carried on in other disciplines within the Humanities and the Social Sciences, like History, Ethnology, Sociology, or Media and Communication Studies, are clearly within its scope. STM–SJM is published both in electronic (Open Access, continuous publication) and paper format. Its aim and ambition is to be not just a prime platform for the publication of music research executed in Sweden, but an important platform for re- searchers in the other Nordic countries, as well as a strong alternative for the publication of research on music and musical phenomena related to the Nordic countries, irrespective of provenience. About this issue The second issue of STM–SJM includes peer reviewed articles, reviews, and obituaries. ‘Between critic and public: Listening to the musical work in Stockholm during the long 19th century’ is an article by Professor Ulrik Volgsten. (At the time of electronic publica- tion (June 23, 2015), Volgsten was Associate Professor in Musicology at the School of Music, Theatre and Art, Örebro University.) Through a systematic, selective study of the daily press criticism in Stockholm in the 19th century, the author qualifies the picture of 19th-century listeners as in general apprehending music as autonomous musical works. ‘Music listening and matters of equality in music education’ is an article jointly writ- ten by Professor Eva Georgii-Hemming, School of Music, Theatre and Art, Örebro Univer- sity, and Ph.D. Victor Kvarnhall. Taking its point of departure in the notion of inclusion in an educational context, as well as a certain idea of how music and societal construct is related, it recognizes the excluding effect on some students of the current use of certain varieties of popular music in public school music education – in, e.g., the Nordic coun- tries. Against this background, the article enters an extensive discussion of how educa- tors could use classroom practice in music listening for furthering equality and inclusion. ’The revised versions of Kurt Atterberg’s symphonies’ documents the research done by Ph.D. Carola Finkel, lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frank- furt, concerning the different versions of three of Atterberg’s symphonies. The author relates the history and the details of the different versions, and sets the stage for more considerate choices in the performance of these works. Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning vol. 97-2015 i Editorial_2015_print.indd 1 2016-04-27 14:25 Editorial In ‘The music classroom as a local place and a public space: Democratic education towards music as a language of us all’, Cecilia Ferm Thorgersen, Professor in Music Edu- cation at Luleå University of Technology, investigates the implications of the philosopher Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on democracy, equality and freedom for the realization of the Swedish curriculum for compulsory schools (Lgr 11). In other words, Arendt is suggested as a guide for music educators to interpret the steering documents of the music educa- tion. *** STM–SJM has received funding from the Swedish Research Council for production and dis- tribution of the volume 2015. Stockholm 31 January 2016 Jacob Derkert Editor-in-chief ii Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning vol. 97-2015 Editorial_2015_print.indd 2 2016-03-29 12:16 Between critic and public Between critic and public Listening to the musical work in Stockholm during the long 19th century Ulrik Volgsten ‘The audience, yes - who is it and where can it be found?’ With these words Albert Ru- benson, composer and music critic in Stockholm, draws attention to a much neglected part of 19th century music life in Sweden. Writing for the periodical Ny tidning för musik in the summer of 1857, Rubenson paints a rather dull picture. Except for the friends of friends of the concert arranger, the audience is limited to ‘a few young idlers, one or other real friend of music … and half a dozen critics, who believe themselves be better off as critics if they have heard the music beforehand’ (Rubenson, 1857, p. 218).1 One might think the writer is promoting a naïve first-time experience of music, but reading further the text rather suggests the impact on Rubenson by Eduard Hanslick’s treatise Vom Musikalisch-Schönen, which had been published just a few years earlier. However Rubenson’s main issue was not primarily to educate the listener, but to elevate the status and quality of the Swedish composers, above the embarrassing level of the dilettante.2 The chief task of the critic, therefore, was to aid the composer and mark a distinction be- tween the amateur and the professional (see Reese Willén, 2014). Nevertheless, without the reports of the professional critic, so Rubenson seems to say, the audience is lost to ignorance and lewd enjoyment in its encounter with the music. 1 All translations by the author. Citations from primary sources in original language are collercted on pp. 24- 26. 2 Rubenson was well acquainted with what was going on in the cultural centres of continental Europe. He studied in Leipzig with Niels Gade and Moritz Hauptmann and promoted the romantic symphony-aesthetic of his teachers upon his return to Stockholm. Although eager to incorporate Swedish folk-music material into his compositions, he did not abandon his formalist ideals. In an earlier article Rubenson had spelled these out: ‘The artist has a definite standpoint, based on studies and on the striving along a definite path to a defi- nite goal; the dilettante lacks such a goal. For the artist the sensuous is of subordinate importance; the spirit of the music counts for all. By the dilettante contrariwise; he enjoys all that simply sounds, shouts constantly for melody … . The artist understands and appreciates music, whereby is understood instrumental music, as such; the musical action is for him enough. … Dilettantish is called that within the creative arts which is theoretically and technically inapt and unskilled … .’ (Rubenson, 1855, p. 26f.; see also Volgsten, 2014). Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning vol. 97 2015 – Swedish Journal of Music Research Vol. 2 2015, pp. 1-26. © The Author 2015. Published by Svenska samfundet för musikforskning. All rights reserved. Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning vol. 97-2015 1 Volgsten_2015_print.indd 1 2016-04-27 14:20 Between critic and public A perhaps more elaborated concern with the audience can be seen in an article in Stockholms musik-tidning, written by Rubenson’s colleague Per Conrad Boman.