Lissa and David Monrad Johansen. ‘Rakefiskballaden blir til’ Roa, Hadeland 9 February 1918 at Lars Herseth’s ‘Traagaa’
Photo: Finne-Bent Lund
Photo: Morten Krogstad
Photo: Morten Krogstad
Hamburg, 1974 (private archive)
Ivar Mortensen Egnund, christmas card: “God jul! Godt nyttår! Alle!” signed ‘Egnundgubben’, 1932
Johan Kvandal and Knut Hamsun. Drawing by Ulf Aas.
World premiere of opera ‘Mysterier’. With opera director Eliassen and creative team, January 1994
Conservatoire de Paris, spring 1953. Nadia Boulanger on the front left side, Kvandal at the back.
Easter holiday at Kolbotn, 1939
Photo: Familien magazine
Photo: VG
Early 50s (private archive)
1990s (private archive)
1951
Photo: Lisbeth Risnes
1939
Mosjøen, birth place of David Monrad Johans
The Monrad Johansen (David) family, 1920s. Kvandal in the front.
Kvandal with Lissa and David Monrad Johansen, 1950s
Sognefjorden, 1995
1964
With Carl von Garaguly, 1981
The old garden (‘gamlehagen’) at Garborg’s Labråten, Hvalstad 1925. Kvandal to the right.
In the music room, January 1994
Music room. Photo: Magasinet Hus og have, 1937
The two composers’ home, Slependen. Photo: Magasinet Hus og have, 1937
Drawing by Ulf Aas, 1984, Bergen
Wife Lilleba Lund Kvandal. As a 24-year-old, she starred as The Queen of the Night(a coloratura soprano part in Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute) on a main opera stage in Vienna.
In the mountains, Rendalen
At the Risør Festival of Chamber Music 1995, with August Albertsen and Morten Gaathaug
With parents at Garborg’s Labråten, Hvalstad 1925. Kvandal in the front.
Last picture, 9 October 1998
By the work desk, 1995.
70th Anniversary, with music publishers Leif Dramstad and Fritjof Backer-Grøndahl
Pianist Håvard Gimse sammen med komponist Johan Kvandal foran klaveret.
With Leif Ove Andsnes and Lars Anders Tomter. Risør Chamber Music Festival. Foto: Jan Tomas Espedal/ Aftenposten
After world premiere of Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1993
Studying the score for the Violin Concerto. Ragin Wenk-Wolff and Kvandal in the music room, 1979.
In Pietrasanta (Tuscany), while working on the opera Mysteries, 1987
Lilleba and Johan Kvandal in NRK recording studio Norwegian Stev Tunes op. 40, 1974
Hamburg, 1974
Johan ‘Bommen’ Kvandal to the left and Ådne Garborg, 1934
By Olav Aukrust’s home in Bøverdalen
Venice, 1983
Geirangerfjorden, 1990
Photo: Bergen Digital Studio
In the mountains, on the way to Rødalshøa
With Maria Kvandal in Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1953
Paris, with Karen Marie Flagstad’s daughter, spring 1954
Paris, Place de Concorde, 1953
September 1953
In the music room, 1950s
Dent Blanche im Nebel, 4000er im Kanton Wallis, Schweiz. Alps of Switzerland
Dette er en bildetekst.
Nagel with Dagny.
Violin virtuoso and vagabond, Nagel causes unease.
The inhabitants of the small village: “A stranger has arrived in town.”
The main character, Nagel, tormented by visions.
“Mysteries” is also a love story. Nagel with Dagny.
Kvandal as a young man in 1938. Divertimento was written in 1941.
Working on Norwegian Visions, op. 67, in 1985.
Photo from 1939.
Visions Norvegiennes pour orchestre op. 67 (1985)1:34
Symphony nr. 1 op. 18 (1959) - Movement I - 32`1:21
Antagonia op. 28 (1979) - Movement III - 23`1:16
Concerto for Chamber Orchestra op. 55 (1980) - 15`1:27
Symphonic Epos for Orchestra op. 21 (1962) - 18`5:27
Divertimento for String Orchestra op. 3 (1941) - 18`Johan Kvandal1:39
Sinfonia Concertante op. 29 (1968) - 18`1:29
Symphonic Epos for Orchestra op. 21 (1962) - 18`5:27
Antagonia, Op. 38 Concerto for Two String Orchestras and Percussion (1973) - Movement I - 23`1:13
Norwegian Overture for Orchestra op. 7 (1951) -7`2:17
Skipper Worse Suite op. 28.b (1968) - Movement II - 17`1:02
Triptychon for Orchestra op. 53 (1979) - 13`0:15
Sinfonia Concertante op. 29 (1968) - 18`1:29
Sinfonia Concertante op. 29 (1968) - 18`1:29
Symphony nr. 1 op. 18 (1959) - Movement III - 32`1:19
Variations and Fugue for Orchestra op. 14 (1954) - 15`2:31
Skipper Worse Suite op. 28.b (1968) - Movement I - 17`0:51
Symphony nr. 1 op. 18 (1959) - Movement I - 32`1:21
Antagonia op. 28 (1979) - Movement II - 23`2:07
Skipper Worse Suite op. 28.b (1968) - Movement I - 17`0:51
Symphony nr. 1 op. 18 (1959) - Movement III - 32`1:19
Visions Norvegiennes pour orchestre op. 67 (1985)1:34
Sinfonia Concertante op. 29 (1968) - 18`1:29
Symphony nr. 1 op. 18 (1959) - Movement I - 32`1:21
Symphony nr. 1 op. 18 (1959) - Movement I - 32`1:21