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{{Short description|Swedish composer and engineer}}{{More citations needed|date=June 2024}}[[File:Kurt Atterberg.jpg|thumb|right|Kurt Atterberg]]
'''Kurt Magnus Atterberg''' ({{IPA
▲'''Kurt Magnus Atterberg''' ({{IPA-sv|²atːɛrbærj|lang}}, 12 December 1887{{spaced ndash}}15 February 1974) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] composer and engineer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas, and ballets.
==Biography==
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Atterberg died on 15 February 1974 in Stockholm, aged 86, and was buried there in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen|Northern Cemetery]].
== Alleged Ties to Nazi Germany ==
Both before and during the Nazi era, Atterberg collaborated with German composers and music organizations with the aim of strengthening Swedish-German musical relations. He sometimes conducted his own works with famous orchestras in Germany and several famous conductors also performed Atterberg's symphonies. Atterberg never hesitated to pass on the German contacts he had made over the years to his Swedish colleagues or to work to have Swedish works performed in Germany. In this way, Albert Henneberg could collaborate with Fritz Tutenberg, whom Atterberg had known since a music festival in [[Kiel]] in 1926, and together with him write operas for the opera in Chemnitz. From 1935–1938, Atterberg was also general secretary of the Permanent Council for the International Co-operation of Composers (Ständiger Rat für die internationale Zusammenarbeit der Komponisten), founded by Richard Strauss.{{Cn|date=June 2024}}
There are anti-Semitic streaks in Atterberg's correspondence and use of language, particularly evident in disputes with the composer [[Moses Pergament]], a music critic for the ''Svenska Dagbladet''. In a letter to Pergament in 1923, Atterberg writes: "I could not have dreamed that you would launch yourself as a Swedish composer […] So far, you are a purely Jewish composer for the sake of principle - why not in name as well?"<ref>Jonsson Leif, Åstrand Hans, red (1994). Musiken i Sverige. 4, Konstmusik, folkmusik, populärmusik 1920–1990. Stockholm: Fischer, p. 312.</ref> The contradiction between the composers was rooted in their diametrically different artistic orientations and the fact that Atterberg was a leading personality in Swedish musical life and an advocate of the romantic national identity.<ref>Jonsson, ibid.</ref> Pergament on the other hand, belonged to a more modernist phalanx, together with [[Gösta Nystroem]] and [[Hilding Rosenberg]].<ref>Jonsson, p. 313.</ref>
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==Organizer and critic==
Atterberg co-founded the Society of Swedish Composers in 1918, alongside other prominent composers such as [[Ture Rangström]], [[Wilhelm Stenhammar]] and [[Hugo Alfvén]]. Six years later he was elected president of the society, maintaining the position until 1947. At a similar time, he became president of the [[STIM|Svenska Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå]], which he also helped to found, and of which his presidency lasted until 1943. Other jobs taken on by Atterberg included his work as a music critic for the ''Stockholms Tidningen'' from 1919 to 1957, and as secretary of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Music]] from 1940 to 1953.{{Cn|date=June 2024}}
==Musical style==
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==Assessment==
Together with [[Ture Rangström]], Atterberg must be considered a leading composer of the second generation of Swedish late romantics and thus continued the tradition founded by [[Wilhelm Peterson-Berger]], [[Wilhelm Stenhammar]] and [[Hugo Alfvén]]. He was a proponent of the idea that romantic music should portray and strengthen national identity, while opponents defined the character of modern music as transnational and cosmopolitan. While his five operas have fallen into neglect, the nine symphonies (ten when including the 1953 ''Sinfonia per archi'') are once again being heard more frequently, and have been recorded several times.{{Cn|date=June 2024}}
==Works==
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