Previous posts for February 28th are here: Hubert Parry (2020), Marian Anderson (2021), Elisabeth Welch; Johann Philipp Krieger (2022), Josh Groban (2023), and Hubert Parry (2024)
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Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (27 February 1867 — 3 December 1942) was a Swedish composer and music critic.
National Interests
The sets of piano pieces Frösöblomster I, II and III (Flowers of Frösö) have gained a reputation of representing a quintessential "Swedishness" and are still known to most Swedes, even to people generally uninterested in music: the majority of young piano students in the Nordic countries have been taught these pieces. --- adapted from Wikipedia
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger is
A man whose name is little known,
Except among the Swedes, where his
Appealing works have held their own.
Every Swedish pianist plays
His Frösöblomster as a child,
While spending endless summer days
Quite Swedishly beguiled.
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