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Allan Pettersson

Person · male · Sweden · Västra Ryd · born 1911 · died 1980 · recording since 1966

Swedish composer and violist

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Also known as 阿兰·佩特森

Debut: 1966
Recording span: 14 years
Release groups: 54
Awards: 4
Timeline events: 49
Wiki language versions: 20

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Timeline

49 events▣ Album 42✦ Award 4◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1

1910s
1. 19 September 1911 · Birth
  Born 1911-09-19
  source: wikidata
1960s
1. 1966 · Debut release
  Debut release: Symfoni nr 2
  First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1966 · Album
  Album: Symfoni nr 2
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 1968 · Award
  Won: Christ Johnson Prize
  source: wikidata
1970s
1. 1970 · Album
  Album: Symfoni nr. 7
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1974 · Album
  Album: Barfotasånger
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 1974 · Award
  Won: Kurt Atterberg Prize
  source: wikidata
4. 1976 · Album
  Album: Vox Humana
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 1977 · Award
  Won: Litteris et Artibus
  source: wikidata
6. 1978 · Album
  Album: Symfoni nr 9
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. 1978 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 8
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
8. 1978 · Album
  Album: Symfoni nr 12: De döda på torget
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
9. 1979 · Award
  Won: Professor
  source: wikidata
1980s
1. 20 June 1980 · Death
  Died 1980
  source: wikidata
2. 1982 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 14
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 1986 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 5
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
1990s
1. August 1990 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 5 / Viola Concerto
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1992 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 7
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 22 March 1994 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 6
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 1 August 1994 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 9
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. October 1994 · Album
  Album: Pettersson: Vox Humana / Rosenberg: The Shepherd of Days
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
6. 25 October 1994 · Album
  Album: Concertos for String Orchestra 1-3
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. 1995 · Album
  Album: Violin Concerto no. 1 / Chamber Works
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
8. 1 January 1995 · Album
  Album: Pettersson: Symphony no. 15 / Ruzicka: Das Gesegnete, das Verfluchte
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
9. 25 January 1995 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 13
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
10. 22 August 1995 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 2 / Symphonic Movement
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
11. 13 May 1997 · Album
  Album: Symphonies nos. 10 & 11
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
12. 20 June 1997 · Album
  Album: Symphonies nos. 5 & 16
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
13. 1998 · Album
  Album: Complete Songs
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2000s
1. February 2000 · Album
  Album: Seven Sonatas for Two Violins
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 2006 · Album
  Album: Violin Concerto no. 2
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 15 November 2006 · Album
  Album: Ur barfotasånger / Konsert för stråkorkester nr 1 och 2
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. February 2009 · Album
  Album: Eight Barefoot Songs / Concertos nos. 1 & 2 for String Orchestra
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2010s
1. 26 February 2010 · Album
  Album: Concerto no. 3 for String Orchestra
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1 April 2011 · Album
  Album: Concerto for Violin and String Quartet / Three Pieces for Violin and Piano / Sonatas for 2 Violins
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. August 2011 · Album
  Album: Symphonies nos. 1 & 2
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 2012 · Album
  Album: Complete Songs
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. August 2012 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 6
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
6. December 2013 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 9
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. September 2014 · Album
  Album: Symphonies nos. 4 & 16
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
8. October 2015 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 13
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
9. February 2017 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 14
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
10. 10 March 2018 · Album
  Album: Symphonies 5 & 7
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
11. April 2019 · Album
  Album: Violin Concerto no. 2 / Symphony no. 17 (fragment)
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2020s
1. January 2021 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 12 “The Dead in the Square”
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1 April 2022 · Album
  Album: Barfotasånger
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 1 July 2022 · Album
  Album: Symphony no. 15 / Viola Concerto
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 28 July 2023 · Album
  Album: Concerto for Violin and String Quartet / String Trio / Works for Violin and Piano
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 13 February 2026 · Album
  Album: Symphonies nos. 3 & 8
  Album
  source: musicbrainz

Biography

English biography2,245 words · 7 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1375231311

Biography

Gustaf Allan Pettersson (19 September 1911 – 20 June 1980) was a Swedish composer and violist. He is considered one of the 20th century's most important Swedish composers and was described as one of the last great symphonists, often compared to Gustav Mahler. Pettersson's music has a very distinctive sound and can hardly be confused with that of any other 20th-century composer. In the final decade of his life, his symphonies (typically one-movement works) developed an international following, particularly in Germany and Sweden. Of these, his best known work is Symphony No. 7. His music later found success in the United States. The conductors Antal Doráti and Sergiu Comissiona premiered and recorded several of his symphonies. Pettersson's song cycle Barefoot Songs influenced many of his compositions. Doráti arranged eight of the Barefoot Songs. Birgit Cullberg produced three ballets based on Pettersson's music.
Pettersson studied at the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. For more than a decade, he was a violist in the Stockholm Concert Society; after retiring he devoted himself exclusively to composition. Later in his life, he suffered from rheumatoid arthritis. Pettersson was awarded the Swedish royal medal Litteris et Artibus.

Early life

Born on 19 September 1911, Gustaf Allan Pettersson was the youngest of four children. His father, Karl Viktor Pettersson (1875–1952), was a violent, alcoholic blacksmith, and his mother, Ida Paulina (née Svenson) (1876–1960), was a dressmaker. Pettersson was born at Granhammar manor in Västra Ryd parish in the Uppland province of Sweden. He grew up poor in Stockholm's Södermalm district, where he lived throughout his life. He once said: I wasn't born under a piano, I didn't spend my childhood with my father, the composer... no, I learnt how to work white-hot iron with the smith's hammer. My father was a smith who may have said no to God, but not to alcohol. My mother was a pious woman who sang and played with her four children.
With his parents and siblings, Pettersson lived in a damp, one-room basement apartment with bars on the window. When he was 10, he bought a cheap violin with money he earned from selling Christmas cards and taught himself to play it. Even the beatings he received from his father and the threat of reform school could not diminish his interest in music. Through strict self-discipline and with the help of music, Pettersson freed himself from his social misery and difficult family circumstances. Aged 14, he finished elementary school and took up full-time practice on the violin. He later made two unsuccessful attempts to enter the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
In 1930, Pettersson began studying violin and later the viola, as well as counterpoint and harmony, at the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (Royal College of Music, Stockholm). At the beginning of World War II, he was in Paris, studying the viola with the French violist Maurice Vieux. Pettersson won the Jenny Lind scholarship prize in 1938, using it to study abroad.

Later life

During the 1940s, Pettersson worked as a violist in the Stockholm Concert Society (later the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra). He also studied composition with the composer and conductor Karl-Birger Blomdahl, orchestration with the conductor Tor Mann, and counterpoint with organist and composer Otto Olsson. In 1943, he married a physiotherapist, Gudrun Tyra Charlotta Gustafsson (1921–2017).
In September 1951, Pettersson went to Paris to study composition and was a student of composers René Leibowitz, Arthur Honegger, Olivier Messiaen, and Darius Milhaud. He returned to Sweden at the end of 1952. In the early 1950s, he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. He gave up playing the viola and began devoting his life to composition. In 1954, he received his first annual state composition grant.

By the time of his Symphony No. 5, completed in 1962, his mobility and health were considerably compromised. In 1964, the government granted him a lifelong guaranteed income. His greatest success came a few years later with his Symphony No. 7 (1966), which premiered on 13 October 1968 in Stockholm Concert Hall with Antal Doráti conducting the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. A recording of his seventh symphony, with the same conductor and orchestra, was released in 1969. It was a breakthrough, establishing his international reputation, and he received two Swedish Grammis in 1970. The symphony was listed in 2025 in the Swedish Culture Canon. The conductors Antal Doráti and Sergiu Comissiona premiered and made first recordings of several of Pettersson's symphonies and contributed to his rise to fame during the 1970s.
Pettersson was hospitalized for nine months in 1970, soon after the composition of his Symphony No. 9, his longest symphony. He began writing the condensed Symphony No. 10 (1972) from his sickbed. Pettersson was admitted to Karolinska Hospital due to a life-threatening kidney ailment. He recovered, but rheumatoid arthritis largely confined him to his fourth-floor apartment in a building with no elevator. In 1975, after a dispute about a change in a concert program for an American tour, the Stockholm Philharmonic was forbidden to perform works by Pettersson "for all time". The ban was lifted in 1976. Pettersson was awarded the Litteris et Artibus, a Swedish royal medal established in 1853, in 1977. In autumn 1978, he moved to state-provided housing. He began writing his seventeenth symphony, but died of cancer on 20 June 1980, at age 68, in Stockholm's Maria Magdalena parish before finishing it. He is buried in the Högalid Church columbarium.

Music

Pettersson's music can be compared to Mahler's symphonic output, especially in the magnificent design and the passion and dynamism. Like Mahler, he also often includes music from his songs in his symphonies, as well as the second violin concerto. Pettersson, an eccentric symphonist, was not an avant-gardist. His kinetic and organic development of musical matter uses traditional means of expression. Basic motifs are constantly being changed and developed. Pettersson's writing is very demanding, often featuring many simultaneous polyphonic lines. His symphonies end on common major or minor chords—tonality, though often attenuated, is found mostly in slower sections. This is evident in the openings and endings of his 6th and 7th symphonies, and the end of his 9th. Overwhelmingly serious in tone, often dissonant, his music rises to ferocious climaxes, relieved, especially in his later works, by lyrical oases ("lyrische Inseln").
Pettersson's music has a very distinctive sound and can hardly be confused with that of any other 20th-century composer. His symphonies, which range from 25 to 70 minutes long, are typically one-movement works, with the exceptions of No. 3 (in four movements) and No. 8 (in two). Pettersson's music is often demanding both on performers and listeners.
Pettersson quoted songs from his own 24 Barefoot Songs in several of his compositions.
Musicologist Ivanka Stoïanova designed a theory of musical space about Pettersson's music.
Most of his music has now been recorded at least once and much of it is now available in published scores.

Legacy

In 1968–1969, conductor and composer Antal Doráti arranged eight of Pettersson's Barefoot Songs as full-scale orchestral songs.
Choreographer Birgit Cullberg produced three ballets based on Pettersson's music. Rapport (1976, Symphony No. 7), Vid Urskogens rand (1977, Concerto No. 1 for String Orchestra), Krigsdanser (War Dance) (1979, Symphony No. 9).
The four orchestral sketches "... das Gesegnete, das Verfluchte" (1991) by Peter Ruzicka are a tribute to Pettersson's life and work, quoting sketches of his unfinished Symphony No. 17.
Roy Andersson used the finale of Symphony No. 7 in his short film World of Glory (Härlig är jorden).
After Pettersson's death, the Internationale Allan Pettersson Gesellschaft (International Allan Pettersson Society) issued six yearbooks, Classic Produktion Osnabrück (CPO) began recording his complete works, and a series of concerts (in 1994–1995) programmed almost all of them.
In 2002, a Swedish Allan Pettersson Society (Allan Pettersson-sällskapet) was founded.

Symphonies

Symphony No. 1 (1951) (incomplete)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (performing version by Christian Lindberg) (BIS CD) OCLC 749880192
Symphony No. 2 (1952–1953)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stig Westerberg (Swedish Society Discofil LP and CD) OCLC 869139542
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alun Francis (CPO CD) OCLC 990776807, 610619988
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) OCLC 749880192
Symphony No. 3 (1954–1955)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Alun Francis (CPO CD) OCLC 874528446
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (BIS CD) OCLC 987698874, 70480579, 875607794
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD)
Symphony No. 4 (1958–1959)
Göteborgs Symfoniker, Sergiu Comissiona (BIS LP)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Alun Francis (CPO CD) OCLC 874528446
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) OCLC 908174896
Symphony No. 5 (1960–1962)
Berliner Sibelius Orchester, Andreas Peer Kähler (Bluebell LP and CD) OCLC 18877225
Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Moshe Atzmon (BIS CD) OCLC 873743666
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Alun Francis (CPO CD) OCLC 990243222, 1057997291
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) OCLC 1034638954
Symphony No. 6 (1963–1966)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu (CBS LP) OCLC 725553097
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Manfred Trojahn (CPO CD) OCLC 871953334
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) OCLC 945977705, 870662801
Symphony No. 7 (1966–1967)
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Antal Doráti (Swedish Society Discofil LP and CD/London LP) (Grammis 1970) OCLC 872147110, 14964319, 45586363
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Comissiona (Caprice CD) OCLC 29620951, 977971527
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Gerd Albrecht (CPO CD) OCLC 60853163, 822857094
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (BIS CD) OCLC 874923816
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) OCLC 1034638954
Symphony No. 8 (1968–1969)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Comissiona (Polar LP and Deutsche Grammophon LP) OCLC 725716693
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Thomas Sanderling (CPO CD) OCLC 638464541, 873571490
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Gerd Albrecht (Orfeo CD) OCLC 249081425
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (BIS CD) OCLC 41557470, 317634279
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD)
Symphony No. 9 (1970)
Göteborgs Symfoniker, Sergiu Comissiona (Philips LP)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Alun Francis (CPO CD) OCLC 1058033816, 873438119
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) (Grammis 2015) OCLC 995556946
Symphony No. 10 (1971–1972)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti (EMI LP) OCLC 913186819
NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Alun Francis (CPO CD) OCLC 890524210, 871969453
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (BIS CD) OCLC 41557470, 317634279
Symphony No. 11 (1971–1973)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (BIS CD) OCLC 874492404
NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Alun Francis (CPO CD) OCLC 890524210
Symphony No. 12 "De döda på torget" ("The Dead of the Square") (1973–1974)
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockholm Philharmonic Chorus, Uppsala University Chamber Choir, Carl Rune Larsson (Caprice LP and CD) OCLC 20358824
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Choir, Manfred Honeck (CPO CD) OCLC 873175780, 638445016, 70702259
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) OCLC 1231565131
Symphony No. 13 (1976)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alun Francis (CPO CD) OCLC 990787167
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) OCLC 933602262, 928103709
Symphony No. 14 (1978)
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sergiu Comissiona (Phono Suecia CD) OCLC 874190019, 658765036
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Johan M. Arnell (CPO CD) OCLC 822857099
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) OCLC 973569405
Symphony No. 15 (1978)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Peter Ruzicka (CPO CD) OCLC 33168154
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (BIS CD) OCLC 987698874, 70480579
Symphony No. 16 (1979)
Frederick L. Hemke (Alto saxophone), Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Ahronovitch (Swedish Society Discofil LP and CD) OCLC 45586363
John-Edward Kelly (Alto saxophone), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Alun Francis (CPO CD) OCLC 1057997291
Jörgen Pettersson (Alto saxophone), Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) OCLC 908174896
Symphony No. 17 (1980) (fragment)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS SACD-2290, 2019) OCLC 1104057068

Other works

Two Elegies (1934)
Martin Gelland (violin), Lennart Wallin (piano) (BIS CD) OCLC 872174277
6 Songs (1935) (text by Gunnar Björling et al.).
Margot Rödin (mezzo-soprano), Arnold Östman (piano) (Swedish Society Discofil LP and CD) OCLC 20635303
Andante espressivo (1938)
Martin Gelland (violin), Lennart Wallin (piano) (BIS CD) OCLC 872174277
Romanza (1942)
Martin Gelland (violin), Lennart Wallin (piano) (BIS CD) OCLC 872174277
24 Barefoot Songs (Barfotasånger) (1943–1945)
Erik Saedén (baritone), Arnold Östman (piano) (Swedish Society Discofil LP and CD) OCLC 7385656
8 Barefoot Songs (Barfotasånger) orchestrated by Antal Doráti
Anders Larsson (baritone), Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD)
Lamento for piano (1945)
Volker Banfield (CPO CD) OCLC 1011487634
Lennart Wallin (BIS CD) OCLC 872174277
Concerto No. 1 for violin and string quartet (1949)
Ulf Hoelscher (violin), Mandelring-Quartett (CPO CD) OCLC 725519583
Concerto No. 1 for string orchestra (1949–1950)
Musica Vitae, Petter Sundkvist (Caprice CD) OCLC 80593693
Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD)
Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Johannes Goritzki (CPO CD) OCLC 638280739, 32319319
Seven Sonatas for two violins (1951)
Duo Gelland (BIS CD) OCLC 872174277, 45496385
Concerto No. 2 for string Orchestra (1956)
Musica Vitae, Petter Sundkvist (Caprice CD) OCLC 80593693, 32319319
Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD)
Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Johannes Goritzki (CPO CD) OCLC 638280739
Concerto No. 3 for string Orchestra (1956–1957)
Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS CD) OCLC 871378168
Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Johannes Goritzki (CPO CD) OCLC 638280739, 32319319
Symphonic Movement (1973) (commissioned by Swedish Radio TV1 channel for a film essay by Boris Engström)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alun Francis (CPO CD) OCLC 610619988
Vox Humana (1974)
Marianne Mellnas (soprano), Margot Rodin (alto), Sven-Erik Alexandersson (tenor), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Chorus, Stig Westerberg (BIS CD) OCLC 778517932
Concerto No. 2 for violin and orchestra (1977–1978)
Ida Haendel (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (Caprice LP and CD) OCLC 20635424
Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (CPO CD) OCLC 873599887
Ulf Wallin (violin), Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg (BIS SACD-2290, 2019) OCLC 1104057068
Concerto for viola and orchestra (1979–1980)
Nobuko Imai (viola), Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Lev Markiz (BIS CD) OCLC 873743666

Discography & profile

Normalised profile

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Normalised profile metrics with percentile rank
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	20	81.1th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	54	94.8th
Studio albums	42	99th
Awards recorded	4	96.3th
Timeline events	49	98.8th
Recording span (years)	14	33.6th
Genres	5	88.3th

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Discography (54 release groups · 42 studio albums)

Albums · 42

Symfoni nr 2
1966 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks
A1Symfoni nr. 2
B2Symfoni nr. 2
Symfoni nr. 7
1970 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks
ASymfoni nr. 7
BSymfoni nr. 7
Barfotasånger
1974 · studio album
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Tracklist · 24 tracks · 53:33
A124 Barfotasånger: 1. Visa i sorgton2:26
A224 Barfotasånger: 2. Klokar och knythänder2:35
A324 Barfotasånger: 3. Fattig är mor1:11
A424 Barfotasånger: 4. Kärleken går vilse3:19
A524 Barfotasånger: 5. Stjärnan och gallret1:43
A624 Barfotasånger: 6. Nånting man mist1:36
A724 Barfotasånger: 7. Blomma säj!2:04
A824 Barfotasånger: 8. Vintervisa1:46
A924 Barfotasånger: 9. Liten ska vänta2:24
A1024 Barfotasånger: 10. Jungfrun och Ljugarpust5:08
A1124 Barfotasånger: 11. En spelekarls himlafärd2:08
B1224 Barfotasånger: 12. Du vet2:04
B1324 Barfotasånger: 13. Du lögnar1:36
B1424 Barfotasånger: 14. Herren går på ängen2:01
B1524 Barfotasånger: 15. Hundarna vid havet2:00
B1624 Barfotasånger: 16. Kivlynnte liten3:15
B1724 Barfotasånger: 17. Jag tänker på ting0:43
B1824 Barfotasånger: 18. Blomma vid min fot1:33
B1924 Barfotasånger: 19. Rymmaren2:17
B2024 Barfotasånger: 20. Min längtan2:15
B2124 Barfotasånger: 21. Nu väntar man vinter2:07
B2224 Barfotasånger: 22. Vännen i Söndagslandet3:03
B2324 Barfotasånger: 23. Mens flugorna surra2:25
B2424 Barfotasånger: 24. Han ska släcka min lykta1:54
Vox Humana
1976 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 50:21
A1Vox Humana: Död matt / Ballad / För en kort minut6:53
A2Vox Humana: En man går förbi4:49
A3Vox Humana: Den obotfärdige / Svälten / Dikt hämtad från en8:20
A4Vox Humana: Dikt till en död vän2:46
A5Vox Humana: Ögonblicksbild från ett kafé2:19
B1Vox Humana: Lynch / Che3:30
B2Vox Humana: Epitafium över en invasionssoldat / Den sista dikten / Lysande vis7:48
B3Vox Humana: Dansvisa / Dom över en förrädare / Min mor4:08
B4Vox Humana: Den stora glädjen9:48
Symfoni nr 9
1978 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 1:25:20
Disc 12 tracks · 40:55
A1Symfoni 9 i en sats23:43
B2Symfoni 9 i en sats17:12
Disc 22 tracks · 44:25
A3Symfoni 9 i en sats23:19
B4Symfoni 9 i en sats21:06
Symphony no. 8
1978 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 55:42
A1Symphony no. 8: First Movement21:26
A2Symphony no. 8: Second Movement (to four bars after 7 in the score)3:45
B3Symphony no. 8: Second Movement (concluded)30:31
Symfoni nr 12: De döda på torget
1978 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 54:02
A11. De döda på torget – 2. Massakern – 3. Nitratets män – 4. Döden [–]28:22
B15. Hur fanorna föddes – 6. Jag kallar på dem – 7. Fienderna – 8. Här är de – 9. Alltid25:40
Symphony no. 14
1982 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 47:44
ASymphony no. 14: Del I (till en takt efter 87 i partituret)26:48
BSymphony no. 14: Del II (slutet)20:56
Symphony no. 5
1986 · studio album
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Tracklist · 1 track · 39:00
1Symphony no. 539:00
Symphony no. 5 / Viola Concerto
1990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 1:10:42
1Symphony no. 541:15
2Viola Concerto29:27
Symphony no. 7
1992 · studio album
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Tracklist · 1 track · 44:35
1Symphony no. 744:35
Symphony no. 6
1994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 1 track · 1:00:39
1Symphony no. 61:00:39
Symphony no. 9
1994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:09:43
1Symphony no. 9: Beginning2:48
2Symphony no. 9: Two Measures After no. 102:15
3Symphony no. 9: Two Measures After no. 183:38
4Symphony no. 9: One Measure Before no. 313:03
5Symphony no. 9: Two Measures After no. 414:37
6Symphony no. 9: Two Measures After no. 575:43
7Symphony no. 9: Three Measures After no. 781:58
8Symphony no. 9: One Measure Before no. 879:34
9Symphony no. 9: Four Measures Before no. 1225:03
10Symphony no. 9: No. 1394:57
11Symphony no. 9: Five Measures After no. 1533:55
12Symphony no. 9: Four Measures Before no. 1654:31
13Symphony no. 9: No. 1790:54
14Symphony no. 9: Four Measures Before no. 1813:51
15Symphony no. 9: Four Measures After no. 1895:37
16Symphony no. 9: No. 2032:22
17Symphony no. 9: Three Measures Before no. 2084:57
Pettersson: Vox Humana / Rosenberg: The Shepherd of Days
1994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:10:16
1Vox Humana: Första delen. 1. Död natt / 2. Ballad / 3. För en kort minut6:53
2Vox Humana: Första delen. 4. En man går förbi4:49
3Vox Humana: Första delen. 5. Den obotfärdige / 6. Svälten / 7. Dikt hämtad från en tidningsnotis8:20
4Vox Humana: Första delen. 8. Dikt till en död vän2:46
5Vox Humana: Första delen. 9. Ögonblicksbild från ett kafé2:19
6Vox Humana: Första delen. 10. Lynch / 11. Che3:30
7Vox Humana: Första delen. 12. Epitafium över en invasionssoldat / 13. Den sista dikten / 14. Lysande vision7:47
8Vox Humana: Andra delen. 1. Dansvisa / 2. Dom över en förräddare / 3. Min mor4:08
9Vox Humana: Tredje delen. Den stora glädjen9:47
10Dagdrivaren: I. Dan driver dagarna i bet...4:48
11Dagdrivaren: II. Lyran i hans minne...2:09
12Dagdrivaren: III. Rysande inträngde jag i antiken2:03
13Dagdrivaren: IV. Jag har dyrkat dem alla...3:47
14Dagdrivaren: V. Sitt hjärta har han mättat...3:06
15Dagdrivaren: VI. Han står med sanningen i sin mun...4:04
Concertos for String Orchestra 1-3
1994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:50:21
Disc 16 tracks · 51:42
1Concerto no. 1: Allegro9:48
2Concerto no. 1: Andante5:40
3Concerto no. 1: Largamente - Allegro9:10
4Concerto no. 2: Allegro7:21
5Concerto no. 2: Dolce e molto tranquillo5:34
6Concerto no. 2: Allegro14:09
Disc 23 tracks · 58:39
1Concerto no. 3: Allegro con moto17:34
2Concerto no. 3: Mesto29:13
3Concerto no. 3: Allegro con moto11:52
Violin Concerto no. 1 / Chamber Works
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:00:12
1Concerto no. 1 for Violin and String Quartet: Moderato5:09
2Concerto no. 1 for Violin and String Quartet: Lento10:26
3Concerto no. 1 for Violin and String Quartet: Allegro moderato15:00
4Four Improvisations for Violin, Viola, and Cello9:57
5Fuga in E for Oboe, Clarinet, and Bassoon14:20
6Fantasy for Viola solo2:50
7Lamento for Piano2:30
Pettersson: Symphony no. 15 / Ruzicka: Das Gesegnete, das Verfluchte
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 52:19
1Symphony no. 15: Beginning10:32
2Symphony no. 15: Six measures after 2511:32
3Symphony no. 15: One measure after 495:25
4Symphony no. 15: Two measures before 637:42
5Symphony no. 15: One measure before 813:24
6Das Gesegnete, das Verfluchte: I4:05
7Das Gesegnete, das Verfluchte: II2:25
8Das Gesegnete, das Verfluchte: III1:11
9Das Gesegnete, das Verfluchte: Lamento6:03
Symphony no. 13
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 1 track · 1:07:12
1Symphony no. 131:07:12
Symphony no. 2 / Symphonic Movement
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 57:11
1Symphony no. 246:36
2Symphonic Movement10:35
Symphonies nos. 10 & 11
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 52:40
1Symphony no. 10: Beginning6:20
2Symphony no. 10: Three Measures After no. 234:20
3Symphony no. 10: One Measure Before no. 355:04
4Symphony no. 10: Five Measures After no. 534:35
5Symphony no. 10: After no. 696:51
6Symphony no. 11: Beginning6:18
7Symphony no. 11: Two Measures Before no. 227:10
8Symphony no. 11: Five Measures Before no. 483:00
9Symphony no. 11: Two Measures Before no. 595:25
10Symphony no. 11: One Measure After no. 833:37
Symphonies nos. 5 & 16
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:05:25
1Symphony no. 540:58
2Symphony no. 16: Frenetico (attacca)7:53
3Symphony no. 16: Cantabile espressivo (attacca)4:23
4Symphony no. 16: (without heading)5:25
5Symphony no. 16: (without heading)6:46
Complete Songs
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 30 tracks · 1:04:42
1Barfotasånger: Visa i sorgton2:34
2Barfotasånger: Klokar och knythänder2:41
3Barfotasånger: Fattig är Mor1:12
4Barfotasånger: Kärleken går vilse3:21
5Barfotasånger: Stjärnan och gallret1:39
6Barfotasånger: Nånting man mist1:40
7Barfotasånger: Blomma säj2:03
8Barfotasånger: Vintervisa1:33
9Barfotasånger: Liten ska vänta2:06
10Barfotasånger: Jungfrun och ljugarpust3:13
11Barfotasånger: En spelekarls himlafärd2:01
12Barfotasånger: Du vet2:12
13Barfotasånger: Du lögnar1:38
14Barfotasånger: Herren går på ängen2:12
15Barfotasånger: Hundarna vid havet2:06
16Barfotasånger: Kivlynnte liten2:31
17Barfotasånger: Jag tänker på ting0:47
18Barfotasånger: Blomma vid min fot1:32
19Barfotasånger: Rymmaren2:14
20Barfotasånger: Min längtan2:10
21Barfotasånger: Nu väntar man vinter1:44
22Barfotasånger: Vännen i söndagslandet2:36
23Barfotasånger: Mens flugorna surra2:12
24Barfotasånger: Han ska släcka min lykta2:03
256 Sånger: Det blir stilla när kråkorna dör2:10
266 Sånger: En visa i ensamhet1:20
276 Sånger: Pinjen och blixten1:20
286 Sånger: Resignation2:40
296 Sånger: Tillflykt1:53
306 Sånger: Mitt hjärta behöver ett litet barn5:19
Seven Sonatas for Two Violins
2000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 1:10:12
1Sonata no. 113:20
2Sonata no. 2: I. Allegro con allegrezza1:36
3Sonata no. 2: II. Moderato3:10
4Sonata no. 2: III. Allegro veloce - Ostinato2:12
5Sonata no. 35:25
6Sonata no. 45:29
7Sonata no. 511:01
8Sonata no. 6: I. Andante2:20
9Sonata no. 6: II. Walzer1:14
10Sonata no. 6: III. Mesto2:17
11Sonata no. 6: IV. Tempo di Waltzer1:40
12Sonata no. 6: V. Andante4:53
13Sonata no. 73:54
14Lamento for piano2:59
15Two elegies: I. Andantino1:42
16Two elegies: II. [no tempo marking]1:27
17Romanza2:34
18Andante espressivo2:59
Violin Concerto no. 2
2006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 55:21
1Violin Concerto no. 2 (revised version): tempo I2:10
2Violin Concerto no. 2 (revised version): quasi doppio movimento7:46
3Violin Concerto no. 2 (revised version): a tempo (30)3:49
4Violin Concerto no. 2 (revised version): a tempo (41)5:15
5Violin Concerto no. 2 (revised version): tempo II6:26
6Violin Concerto no. 2 (revised version): a tempo5:42
7Violin Concerto no. 2 (revised version): a tempo9:18
8Violin Concerto no. 2 (revised version): cantando, tempo IV6:29
9Violin Concerto no. 2 (revised version): cantando, tempo IV5:38
10Violin Concerto no. 2 (revised version): a tempo2:48
Ur barfotasånger / Konsert för stråkorkester nr 1 och 2
2006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:13:19
1Ur barfotasånger: Min längtan2:52
2Ur barfotasånger: Mens flugorna surra3:13
3Ur barfotasånger: Klokar och knythänder3:22
4Ur barfotasånger: Blomma säj2:26
5Ur barfotasånger: Blomma vid min fot1:49
6Ur barfotasånger: Du lögnar2:24
7Ur barfotasånger: Du vet2:38
8Ur barfotasånger: En spelekarls himlafärd2:48
9Ur barfotasånger: Han ska släcka min lycka2:28
10Ur barfotasånger: Herren går på ängen2:30
11Ur barfotasånger: Hundarna vid havet2:24
12Konsert för stråkorkester nr. 1: Allegro8:42
13Konsert för stråkorkester nr. 1: Andante4:43
14Konsert för stråkorkester nr. 1: Largamente7:35
15Konsert för stråkorkester nr. 2: Allegro6:15
16Konsert för stråkorkester nr. 2: Dolce e molto tranquillo3:56
17Konsert för stråkorkester nr. 2: Allegro13:14
Eight Barefoot Songs / Concertos nos. 1 & 2 for String Orchestra
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:10:22
1Eight Barefoot Songs: 1. Herren går på ängen2:20
2Eight Barefoot Songs: 2. Klokar och knythänder3:12
3Eight Barefoot Songs: 3. Blomma, säj1:42
4Eight Barefoot Songs: 4. Jungfrun och ljugarpust5:01
5Eight Barefoot Songs: 5. Mens flugorna surra2:59
6Eight Barefoot Songs: 6. Du lögnar1:46
7Eight Barefoot Songs: 7. Min längtan2:33
8Eight Barefoot Songs: 8. En spelekarls himlafärd3:47
9Concerto no. 1 for String Orchestra: I. Allegro8:55
10Concerto no. 1 for String Orchestra: II. Andante4:22
11Concerto no. 1 for String Orchestra: III. Largamente – Allegro7:16
12Concerto no. 2 for String Orchestra: I. Allegro7:01
13Concerto no. 2 for String Orchestra: II. Dolce e molto tranquillo5:49
14Concerto no. 2 for String Orchestra: III. Allegro13:39
Concerto no. 3 for String Orchestra
2010 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 54:00
1Concerto no. 3 for String Orchestra: I. Allegro con moto16:39
2Concerto no. 3 for String Orchestra: II. Mesto25:21
3Concerto no. 3 for String Orchestra: III. Allegro con moto12:00
Concerto for Violin and String Quartet / Three Pieces for Violin and Piano / Sonatas for 2 Violins
2011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 56:26
1Two Elegies for Violin and Piano: Andantino1:28
2Two Elegies for Violin and Piano: (Adagio)1:27
3Sonata no. 7 for Two Violins: Cantando3:20
4Sonata no. 2 for Two Violins: Allegro con allegrezza1:50
5Sonata no. 2 for Two Violins: Moderato2:53
6Sonata no. 2 for Two Violins: Allegro veloce2:21
7Romance for Violin and Piano: Moderato2:41
8Sonata no. 3 for Two Violins: Allegro agitato5:58
9Andante espressivo for Violin and Piano3:06
10Concerto for Violin and String Quartet: Allegro moderato5:27
11Concerto for Violin and String Quartet: Lento10:49
12Concerto for Violin and String Quartet: Allegro moderato15:06
Symphonies nos. 1 & 2
2011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 1:17:55
1Symphony no. 130:32
2Symphony no. 247:23
Complete Songs
2012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 30 tracks · 1:08:46
1Sex sånger: Det blir stilla då kråkorna dör2:19
2Sex sånger: En visa i ensamhet1:09
3Sex sånger: Pinjen och blixten1:23
4Sex sånger: Resignation2:46
5Sex sånger: Tillflykt2:04
6Sex sånger: Mitt hjärta behöver ett litet barn4:33
7Barfotasånger: Klokar och knythänder2:36
8Barfotasånger: Fattig är mor1:10
9Barfotasånger: Vännen i söndagslandet2:51
10Barfotasånger: Stjärnan och gallret1:46
11Barfotasånger: Kivlynnte liten3:06
12Barfotasånger: Rymmaren1:56
13Barfotasånger: Liten ska vänta2:16
14Barfotasånger: Visa i sorgton2:26
15Barfotasånger: Kärleken går vilse3:14
16Barfotasånger: Nånting man mist1:34
17Barfotasånger: Du vet1:37
18Barfotasånger: Jungfrun och ljugarpust4:51
19Barfotasånger: Hundarna vid havet2:02
20Barfotasånger: Min längtan2:09
21Barfotasånger: Vintervisa1:31
22Barfotasånger: Blomma säj2:02
23Barfotasånger: Herren går på ängen2:04
24Barfotasånger: En spelkarls himlafärd2:04
25Barfotasånger: Jag tänker på ting0:45
26Barfotasånger: Blomma vid min fot1:43
27Barfotasånger: Du lögnar1:42
28Barfotasånger: Mens flugorna surra2:31
29Barfotasånger: Nu väntar man vinter4:30
30Barfotasånger: Han ska släcka min lykta2:06
Symphony no. 6
2012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 1 track · 59:51
1Symphony no. 659:51
Symphony no. 9
2013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:09:36
1Symphony no. 9: Beginning7:38
2Symphony no. 9: 3 bars after Fig. 278:58
3Symphony no. 9: 3 bars before Fig. 587:56
4Symphony no. 9: 2 bars before Fig. 886:45
5Symphony no. 9: 3 bars after Fig. 1118:13
6Symphony no. 9: Fig. 1394:52
7Symphony no. 9: 5 bars after Fig. 15312:43
8Symphony no. 9: 4 bars after Fig. 1895:33
9Symphony no. 9: Fig. 2036:58
Symphonies nos. 4 & 16
2014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 1:05:13
1Symphony no. 437:41
2Symphony no. 1627:32
Symphony no. 13
2015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:06:08
1Symphony no. 13: Beginning5:06
2Symphony no. 13: 5 bars after Fig. 156:27
3Symphony no. 13: 3 bars after Fig. 3511:30
4Symphony no. 13: 5 bars after Fig. 70 (Tempo I)5:13
5Symphony no. 13: 3 bars before Fig. 873:52
6Symphony no. 13: 4 bars before Fig. 999:43
7Symphony no. 13: 5 bars after Fig. 1286:50
8Symphony no. 13: 4 bars after Fig. 1523:02
9Symphony no. 13: 3 bars after Fig. 165 (Tempo I)1:17
10Symphony no. 13: 4 bars after Fig. 1691:41
11Symphony no. 13: 5 bars after Fig. 1747:43
12Symphony no. 13: 4 bars after Fig. 1943:44
Symphony no. 14
2017 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 52:35
1Symphony no. 14: Presto (Tempo primo)2:47
2Symphony no. 14: Tempo II2:56
3Symphony no. 14: Tempo III8:01
4Symphony no. 14: Tempo IV16:01
5Symphony no. 14: Tempo V9:01
6Symphony no. 14: Tempo VI4:52
7Symphony no. 14: Tempo III0:55
8Symphony no. 14: Tempo V3:54
9Symphony no. 14: Tempo VI4:08
Symphonies 5 & 7
2018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:21:55
1Symphony no. 5: Beginning6:25
2Symphony no. 5: Figure 175:51
3Symphony no. 5: Figure 4318:13
4Symphony no. 5: Figure 12910:13
5Symphony no. 7: Beginning2:38
6Symphony no. 7: Bar 534:52
7Symphony no. 7: Bar 1724:25
8Symphony no. 7: Bar 2553:01
9Symphony no. 7: Bar 3114:36
10Symphony no. 7: Bar 3892:22
11Symphony no. 7: Bar 4320:56
12Symphony no. 7: Bar 4503:08
13Symphony no. 7: Bar 5125:16
14Symphony no. 7: Bar 5642:36
15Symphony no. 7: Bar 6131:57
16Symphony no. 7: Bar 6482:25
17Symphony no. 7: Bar 7073:01
Violin Concerto no. 2 / Symphony no. 17 (fragment)
2019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:01:07
1Concerto no. 2 for Violin and Orchestra: Opening17:31
2Concerto no. 2 for Violin and Orchestra: Tempo II (after Fig. 54)12:18
3Concerto no. 2 for Violin and Orchestra: A tempo (after Fig. 93)9:33
4Concerto no. 2 for Violin and Orchestra: Cantando (Fig. 117)14:09
5Symphony no. 17 (fragment)7:36
Symphony no. 12 “The Dead in the Square”
2021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 55:36
1Symphony no. 12 “De döda på torget”: De döda på torget10:53
2Symphony no. 12 “De döda på torget”: Massakern8:23
3Symphony no. 12 “De döda på torget”: Nitratets män5:19
4Symphony no. 12 “De döda på torget”: Döden4:44
5Symphony no. 12 “De döda på torget”: Hur fanorna föddes1:21
6Symphony no. 12 “De döda på torget”: Jag kallar på dem5:46
7Symphony no. 12 “De döda på torget”: Fienderna6:50
8Symphony no. 12 “De döda på torget”: Här är de3:16
9Symphony no. 12 “De döda på torget”: Alltid9:04
Barfotasånger
2022 · studio album
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Tracklist · 30 tracks · 1:11:15
16 Songs: No. 1, Det blir stilla då kråkorna dör2:10
26 Songs: No. 2, En visa i ensamhet1:01
36 Songs: No. 3, Pinjen och blixten1:19
46 Songs: No. 4, Resignation2:27
56 Songs: No. 5, Tillflykt1:52
66 Songs: No. 6, Mitt hjärta behöver ett litet barn5:26
7Barefoot Songs: No. 1, Visa i sorgton2:44
8Barefoot Songs: No. 2, Klokar och knythänder2:32
9Barefoot Songs: No. 3, Fattig är mor1:15
10Barefoot Songs: No. 4, Kärleken går vilse3:11
11Barefoot Songs: No. 5, Stjärnan och gallret1:52
12Barefoot Songs: No. 6, Nånting man mist1:49
13Barefoot Songs: No. 7, Blomma säj2:08
14Barefoot Songs: No. 8, Vintervisa1:34
15Barefoot Songs: No. 9, Liten ska vänta2:25
16Barefoot Songs: No. 10, Jungfrun och ljugarpust5:07
17Barefoot Songs: No. 11, En spelekarls himlafärd2:12
18Barefoot Songs: No. 12, Du vet2:14
19Barefoot Songs: No. 13, Du lögnar1:55
20Barefoot Songs: No. 14, Herren går på ängen2:05
21Barefoot Songs: No. 15, Hundarna vid havet2:20
22Barefoot Songs: No. 16, Kivlynnte liten3:22
23Barefoot Songs: No. 17, Jag tänker på ting0:47
24Barefoot Songs: No. 18, Blomma vid min fot1:55
25Barefoot Songs: No. 19, Rymmaren2:09
26Barefoot Songs: No. 20, Min längtan2:16
27Barefoot Songs: No. 21, Nu väntar man vinter3:41
28Barefoot Songs: No. 22, Vännen i Söndagslandet2:47
29Barefoot Songs: No. 23, Mens flugorna surra2:43
30Barefoot Songs: No. 24, Han ska släcka min lykta1:57
Symphony no. 15 / Viola Concerto
2022 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 1:07:22
1Symphony no. 15: Beginning4:00
2Symphony no. 15: Bar 1164:47
3Symphony no. 15: Bar 2352:28
4Symphony no. 15: Bar 2813:20
5Symphony no. 15: Bar 3672:36
6Symphony no. 15: Bar 4343:45
7Symphony no. 15: Bar 5433:08
8Symphony no. 15: Bar 6293:35
9Symphony no. 15: Bar 6962:40
10Symphony no. 15: Bar 7484:33
11Symphony no. 15: Bar 8551:14
12Fantaisie for Solo Viola3:40
13Concerto for Viola and Orchestra: Beginning5:42
14Concerto for Viola and Orchestra: Bar 1513:39
15Concerto for Viola and Orchestra: Bar 2522:50
16Concerto for Viola and Orchestra: Bar 3295:02
17Concerto for Viola and Orchestra: Bar 4746:37
18Concerto for Viola and Orchestra: Bar 6383:46
Concerto for Violin and String Quartet / String Trio / Works for Violin and Piano
2023 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 59:10
1Concerto for Violin and String Quartet: I. Allegro moderato – Allegro – Moderato – Più allegro – Tempo I6:43
2Concerto for Violin and String Quartet: II. Lento – Molto largo – Molto agitato – Presto – Lento – Andante10:40
3Concerto for Violin and String Quartet: III. Allegro moderato – Meno mosso – Largo poco a poco – Tempo I – Cadenza – Allegretto – Andamento – Allegro furioso – Andante18:49
4Two Elegies for Violin and Piano: Andantino1:29
5Two Elegies for Violin and Piano: ♩ = 481:28
6Andante espressivo for Violin and Piano3:27
7Romanza for Violin and Piano3:13
8Lamento for Piano Solo2:32
9Four Improvisations for String Trio: I. Largo – Allegro2:40
10Four Improvisations for String Trio: II. ♩ = 923:31
11Four Improvisations for String Trio: III. ♩ = 882:27
12Four Improvisations for String Trio: IV. ♩ = 1002:11
Symphonies nos. 3 & 8
2026 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:24:02
1Symphony no. 8: I. First Part19:42
2Symphony no. 8: II. Second Part25:33
3Symphony no. 3: I. Introduzione (Andante con moto) — Allegro con moto12:43
4Symphony no. 3: II. Largo con espressione8:56
5Symphony no. 3: III. Allegro comodo — Allegro deciso4:16
6Symphony no. 3: IV. Allegro con moto (tempo di prima parte)12:52

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Album release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	Notes	First release
1974	Barfotasånger / Sonater för 2 violinerSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 15 tracks · 38:34 A1Herren går på ängen2:00 A2Vännen i Söndagslandet3:45 A3Blomma säj!2:05 A4Nu väntar man vinter1:30 A5En spelekarls himlafärd2:05 A6Du lögnar1:45 A7Sonater för två violiner: Nr 35:55 A8Sonater för två violiner: Nr 73:30 B1Min längtan2:24 B2Nånting man mist1:54 B3Blomma säj!2:30 B4Fattig är Mor1:17 B5Du vet2:04 B6Mens flugorna surra3:05 B7Hundarna vid havet2:45	Compilation	1974
1976	Symfoni nr. 6Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 2 tracks · 53:20 A1Symfoni nr. 6 (Beginning)26:23 B2Symfoni nr. 6 (Conclusion)26:57	Live	1976
1990	Sonatas for Two ViolinsSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 7 tracks · 59:13 1Sonata no. 113:30 2Sonata no. 2: I. Allegro con allegrezza – II. Moderato – III. Allegro veloce6:53 3Sonata no. 36:02 4Sonata no. 45:53 5Sonata no. 511:14 6Sonata no. 6: I. Andante – II. Walzer – III. Mesto (attacca) – IV. Tempo di Waltzer – V. Andante12:11 7Sonata no. 73:30	Compilation	1990
1992	Symphony no. 8 (Live)Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 2 tracks · 50:20 1Symphony no. 8: I. — (Live)21:47 2Symphony no. 8: II. — (Live)28:33	Live	1992
1994	Symphony no. 7 / Symphony no. 16Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 2 tracks · 1:02:42 1Symphony no. 740:20 2Symphony no. 1622:22	Compilation	1994
1994	Symphonie No. 8Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 2 tracks · 51:56 1Symphonie No. 8: Erster Teil21:04 2Symphonie No. 8: Zweiter Teil30:52	Live	1994
1995	Symphony no. 14Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 46:57 1Symphony no. 1446:57	Live	25 January 1995
1995	Symphonies nos. 3 & 4Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:18:14 1Symphony no. 3: Introduction, Andante con moto13:36 2Symphony no. 3: Largo con espressione8:38 3Symphony no. 3: Allegro comodo4:36 4Symphony no. 3: Allegro con moto12:59 5Symphony no. 4: Beginning (Allegro)3:59 6Symphony no. 4: No. 20 (Andante espressivo)26:00 7Symphony no. 4: No. 141 (Larghetto)3:38 8Symphony no. 4: Three measures after no. 1512:25 9Symphony no. 4: One measure before no. 1602:23	Live	17 February 1995
2006	Symphony no. 12 "De Döda på torget"Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 9 tracks · 53:03 1Symphony no. 12 "De döda på torget": I. De döda på torget. Jag kommer inte här och gråter där de föll10:05 2Symphony no. 12 "De döda på torget": II. Massakern. Men då var blodet gömt7:31 3Symphony no. 12 "De döda på torget": III. Nitratets män. Jag var i salpetern med de mörka hjältarna4:49 4Symphony no. 12 "De döda på torget": IV. Döden. Chilenska folk, här beslöt du att räcka handen4:41 5Symphony no. 12 "De döda på torget": V. Hur fanorna föddes. Så har det hittills varit med våra fanor1:40 6Symphony no. 12 "De döda på torget": VI. Jag kallar på dem. En efter en ska jag tala med dem i kväll6:11 7Symphony no. 12 "De döda på torget": VII. Fienderna. De släpade hit gevären laddade6:12 8Symphony no. 12 "De döda på torget": VIII. Här är de. Jag ska kalla på dem som om de vore här3:17 9Symphony no. 12 "De döda på torget": IX. Alltid. Också om fotsteg nöter denna plats i tusen år8:37	Live	16 May 2006
2006	Complete SymphoniesSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music	Compilation	27 December 2006
2024	Complete EditionSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music	Compilation	26 January 2024

Other · 1

Other release groups, by first release date
Cover	Year	Title	Notes	First release
	1999	Barfotasånger. 24 sånger för en röst och piano, 1943–45Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 26 tracks · 1:10:33 1Barfotasånger: Fattig är Mor1:12 2Barfotasånger: Vännen i söndagslandet3:19 3Barfotasånger: Liten ska vänta2:26 4Barfotasånger: Rymmaren2:23 5Barfotasånger: Kivlynnte liten3:24 6Barfotasånger: Stjärnan och gallret1:38 7Barfotasånger: Du vet1:54 8Barfotasånger: Visa i sorgton2:04 9Barfotasånger: Jungfrun och ljugarpust5:09 10Barfotasånger: Nånting man mist1:52 11Barfotasånger: Du lögnar1:42 12Barfotasånger: Kärleken går vilse3:52 13Barfotasånger: Vintervisa1:42 14Barfotasånger: Min längtan2:17 15Barfotasånger: Hundarna vid havet2:49 16Barfotasånger: Blomma vid min fot1:37 17Barfotasånger: Herren går på ängen1:44 18Barfotasånger: Blomma säj!2:36 19Barfotasånger: Klokar och knythänder2:40 20Barfotasånger: Jag tänker på ting0:53 21Barfotasånger: En spelekarls himlafärd2:30 22Barfotasånger: Mens flugorna surra3:06 23Barfotasånger: Han ska släcka min lykta2:18 24Barfotasånger: Nu väntar man vinter5:28 25Avsnitt ur intervju med Allan Pettersson av Sigvard Hammar sänd 8/5 19724:05 26Avsnitt ur intervju med Allan Pettersson av Sigvard Hammar sänd 15/5 19725:53	Interview	1999

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Allan Pettersson metrics with percentile rank among published artists
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	20	81.1th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	54	94.8th
Studio albums	42	99th
Awards recorded	4	96.3th
Timeline events	49	98.8th
Recording span (years)	14	33.6th
Genres	5	88.3th

Awards & honours

Awards and honours, by year
Year	Award	Result
1968	Christ Johnson Prize	won
1974	Kurt Atterberg Prize	won
1977	Litteris et Artibus	won
1979	Professor	won

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Timeline

1910s

Born 1911-09-19

1960s

Debut release: Symfoni nr 2

Album: Symfoni nr 2

Won: Christ Johnson Prize

1970s

Album: Symfoni nr. 7

Album: Barfotasånger

Won: Kurt Atterberg Prize

Album: Vox Humana

Won: Litteris et Artibus

Album: Symfoni nr 9

Album: Symphony no. 8

Album: Symfoni nr 12: De döda på torget

Won: Professor

1980s

Died 1980

Album: Symphony no. 14

Album: Symphony no. 5

1990s

Album: Symphony no. 5 / Viola Concerto

Album: Symphony no. 7

Album: Symphony no. 6

Album: Symphony no. 9

Album: Pettersson: Vox Humana / Rosenberg: The Shepherd of Days

Album: Concertos for String Orchestra 1-3

Album: Violin Concerto no. 1 / Chamber Works

Album: Pettersson: Symphony no. 15 / Ruzicka: Das Gesegnete, das Verfluchte

Album: Symphony no. 13

Album: Symphony no. 2 / Symphonic Movement

Album: Symphonies nos. 10 & 11

Album: Symphonies nos. 5 & 16

Album: Complete Songs

2000s

Album: Seven Sonatas for Two Violins

Album: Violin Concerto no. 2

Album: Ur barfotasånger / Konsert för stråkorkester nr 1 och 2

Album: Eight Barefoot Songs / Concertos nos. 1 & 2 for String Orchestra

2010s

Album: Concerto no. 3 for String Orchestra

Album: Concerto for Violin and String Quartet / Three Pieces for Violin and Piano / Sonatas for 2 Violins

Album: Symphonies nos. 1 & 2

Album: Complete Songs

Album: Symphony no. 6

Album: Symphony no. 9

Album: Symphonies nos. 4 & 16

Album: Symphony no. 13

Album: Symphony no. 14

Album: Symphonies 5 & 7

Album: Violin Concerto no. 2 / Symphony no. 17 (fragment)

2020s

Album: Symphony no. 12 “The Dead in the Square”

Album: Barfotasånger

Album: Symphony no. 15 / Viola Concerto

Album: Concerto for Violin and String Quartet / String Trio / Works for Violin and Piano

Album: Symphonies nos. 3 & 8

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Other works

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Discography (54 release groups · 42 studio albums)

Albums · 42

Album · 11

Other · 1

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