Photos – a life in music

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.

Sognefjorden, 1995

With Carl von Garaguly, 1981

In the music room, January 1994

Drawing by Ulf Aas, 1984, Bergen

In the mountains, Rendalen

At the Risør Festival of Chamber Music 1995, with August Albertsen and Morten Gaathaug

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

By Olav Aukrust’s home in Bøverdalen

Venice, 1983

Geirangerfjorden, 1990

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

Working on Norwegian Visions, op. 67, in 1985.

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 Kvandal 1:39
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
Sonata for Strings op. 79 (1994) - 12`45 2:00
Sonata for Strings op. 79 (1994) - 12`45 2:00