Carlid, Göte
Carlid, Göte
Carlid, Göte Swedish composer; b. Högbo, Dec. 26, 1920; d. Stockholm, June 30, 1953. He was a philosophy student at the Univ. of Uppsala; then served as a municipal librarian in Enköping (1946–48) and Sollen-tuna (1948–50). As a composer, he was largely autodi-dact, but from the outset he adopted a modern idiom, making use of impressionistic and expressionistic techniques. His last works before his early death show a learned approach to many of the problems of new music.
Works
Monologues for Piano (1944–50); Notturno for String Orch. (1945); 3 Songs for Woman’s Voice, Flute, Clarinet, and Cello (1946–49); Small Pieces for Piano (1947); Piano Sonata (1948); Quartetto elegiaco for String Quartet (1948); A Little Tea Music for Flute, 2 Clarinets, and Cello (1949); Mass for Strings (1949); Triad for Saxophone and Piano (1950); Hymnes à la beauté for Chorus and Orch. (1952); The Music Bus for Soli, Children’s Chorus, and Instruments (1952).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire