History repeats itself (2022)

For Piano

Duration

12 minutes

Premiere

2022-05-19 at Julius Hus, Stockholm.

Klara Andersson, piano

Program note

History Repeats Itself is a piece for piano which is composed with the principle "music on music". I have taken inspiration from the Swedish hymn "Ädla skuggor, vördade fäder" and used fragments of the melody.

The title of the piece is named after the questions:
Why do we repeat mistakes someone else has already made and why do we have to learn from our own?

"Ädla skuggor, vördade fäder" is a hymn from the Swedish Opera Gustaf Wasa composed by Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741-1801).
Gustaf Wasa is a Swedish "national opera" in three acts, with music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann and with libretto by Johan Henric Kellgren, after King Gustav III's original idea.
It was premiered in Stockholm1786, with decor by Louis Jean Desprez.

Painting by my father Lars-Eric Blomberg.

A short clip from the premiere with Klara Andersson, piano