Johan Helmich ROMAN (1694-1758)
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J H Roman by Johan Winge. Music, pictures, works, links etc. (In Swedish.)
Created 15 Nov 1996. Reviewed 5 July 2002. Magnus Svanfeldt.
JOHAN HELMICH ROMAN is one of the most important figures in the history of Swedish music of the baroque period. Roman's contribution to the musical life of this period is not confined to his work as a composer but extends over a wide field of activity, for he was Kapellmeister to the court and was responsible for the inauguration of regular public concerts in Stockholm, at which he introduced to the Swedish public the work of many of the most important composers of his time (including Handel). He did much to vindicate the use of Swedish in the setting of sacred texts and exercised a decisive influence on the development of an independent Swedish tradition of vocal writing both in the sphere of sacred and secular music.
1. Occasional music, i.e. instrumental and choral compositions (such as orchestral suites and cantatas) written for ceremonial occasions such as the birthdays of King Fredrik I and Queen Ulrica Eleonora, and comprising also some large choral works given at the funeral of Fredrik I and at the coronation of Adolf Fredrik and Lovisa Ulrika in 1751.
2. Instrumental music comprising twenty-one sinfonias, two Sinfonie per la chiesa, five overtures, five suites, two concerti grossi , five concertos for violin, one for oboe d'amore, eighteen trio-sonatas, the twelve flute sonatas, a number of independent movements collected under the title Diverse , several keyboard works and finally twenty-three works to which Vretblad has given the inscription Musik für violin (viola) .
3. Choral and Vocal Compositions. These include a setting of the Swedish Mass (Kyrie and Gloria) and three of the Jubilate (Psalm 100), Dixit (Psalm 110) and a cantata, '0 Gud vi lofve Dig' (Te Deum) , sixteen sacred pieces (amongst them, Beati omnes , and several settings of texts from the Psalter), eighty-two Andliga sånger (Sacred Songs) with basso continuo (the texts are mostly drawn from the Psalms), a number of other cantatas with Italian texts, and about fifty solo songs with basso continuo accompaniment, settings of poems by Swedish writers from the first half of the eighteenth century (including F. Bonde, O. Dalin, J. Frese, A. D. Leenberg, H. Ch. Nordenflycht and U. Rudenschiöld.)
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