Carl Natanael Rexroth-Berg (9 February 1879, Stockholm

Stockholm

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 – 14 October 1957, Stockholm) was a Swedish

Sweden

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 composer

Composer

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Berg trained in veterinary medicine

Veterinary medicine

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 and began learning music

Music

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 by teaching himself

Autodidacticism

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. He later studied at the Stockholm Conservatory

Royal College of Music, Stockholm

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 as the pupil of Johan Lindegren. Until 1939, he served as a veterinarian

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 in the Swedish Army

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 and afterwards he became a freelance

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 composer.

He composed in a late Romantic

Romantic music

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 style and his output included five opera

Opera

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s, three ballet

Ballet

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s, six symphonies

Symphony

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 as well as several symphonic poem

Symphonic poem

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s, a piano concerto

Piano concerto

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, a violin concerto

Violin concerto

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, a serenade

Serenade

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 for violin

Violin

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 and orchestra

Orchestra

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, a piano quintet

Piano quintet

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, ballades

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, lied

Lied

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er, and pieces for piano

Piano

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Chronological list of selected works

• Saul och David, 1907
• Eros vrede, 1907
• Traumgewalten, symphonic poem, 1910
• Leila, opera, 1910
• Mannen och kvinnan, 1911
• Predikaren, 1911
• Symphony No. 1 Alles endet was entstehet, 1913
• Varde Ljus, symphonic poem, 1914
• Älvorna, ballet, 1914
• Israels lovsång, 1915
• Symphony No. 2 Årstiderna, 1916
• Symphony No. 3 Makter, 1917
• Piano Quintet, 1917
• Die badenden Kinder, 1918
• Violin Concerto, 1918
• Symphony No. 4 Pezzo Sinfonico, 1918
• Sensitiva, ballet, 1919
• String Quartet, 1919
• Hertiginnans friare, ballet, 1920
• Serenade for Violin and Orchester, 1923
• Symphony No. 5 Trilogia delle passioni, 1924
• Höga Visan, 1925
• Engelbrekt, opera, 1928 (Engelbrecht, Braunschweig
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• Piano Concerto, 1931
• Judith, opera, 1935
• Birgitta, opera, 1942
• Genoveva, opera, 1944–46
• Tre konungar, Part 1, opera (incomplete), 1950–1954, orchestrated up to 1957

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