Guestbook 2

It's always nice to look at your AP-pages !
To those who want to start listening to AP,
	listen to Symphonies 6, 7 and 9

/henrik

I have been listening  to AP symphony # 8 on cpo. It took about eight listenings before it finally hit me like a ton of bricks. 

I have been listening  to AP symphony # 8 on cpo. It took about eight listenings before it finally hit me like a ton of bricks. 

I like your pages. Keep up the good work. 

Phantastic to find a homepage of this highky underestimated Swedish composer!!

I am happy to have found a page about Allan Pettersson.

Delighted to find such a huge site on my favourite composer

As the publisher of Allan Petterson's music we are very pleased to notice your interest in his music. We will be glad to provide you with any information you may want regarding Allan Pettersson. Do not hesitate to contact us in this matter. With kind regards Kristina Fryklöf, Promotion Department, Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia AB.

Post Scriptum: FYI: Nordiska Musikförlaget is nowadays a part of Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia AB. DS

I´m very pleased to find a site devoted to Allan Pettersson.
His music chased away ghosts of many nights.
His cries has been heard.

I love Allan Pettersson and own CDs of most of his works.  
It is really wonderful of you to maintain this page!

Ken Innes
Pacifica, California  USA

     Without a doubt,Pettersson will go down in history as one of the great symphonists of the 20th Century, if not of all time. His music is about life; with all of its turmoil and turbulence, but also with all of its beauty and sunshine.

Very Good site.  Keep it up.

Pettersson will certainly go down in history as the greatest symphonist of the middle 20th Century. His music,especially the symphonies, are absolutely shattering. Listening to the symphonies is like a grand tour through the struggle of life itself.

Some years ago when I first found The Allan Pettersson Page on "The Net", I could hardly believe my eyes. I was searching for information about one of my favourite composers, but I didn´t believe I would find anything.

 (I wrote his name  beside the Search button more as a joke than seriously) and ... The Allan Pettersson Page was there!

I don´t know when the symphonies of Allan Pettersson more often will be heard live in the concert halls in Sweden. I hope soon, because I think the audience want to hear his music. They would like to, if they´ve had the chance to hear it.  

I cannot express truly how Pettersson's music has changed my life,
but his music is some of the most profound in the 20th century
repetoire!  He is by far my favorite composer.  I am quite glad to
see more than one site about him!  Symphonies 5-9 are works too
often neglected by modern orchestras and institutions!  The more
we share our love for Pettersson, the greater the appreciation 
will grow!  I would love to see his status changed from "obscure" 
to "extraordinary" or "inadmissable"!

It´s important to keerp Allan Petterson´s music alive.

Thanks for the effort you have expended on behalf of a composer who has left an indelible imprint on a few of us. It's disconcerting to see how few performances have taken place outside of Sweden in spite of the music's elemental lack of parochialism.

Thank's for this super Web site:-)
Here, in France, I think there is only few people to know the name af this great composer I like so!
Friendly
Philippe

When I saw there was a page about Petterson, I just HAD to check it out. Do you have any .wav files up? I would LOVE to include excerpts from his Violin concerto, Symphony #7 or the Barefoot songs on my homepage... 

Just stopped by to see if this thing still works.

Big AP fan !!

Big AP fan !! You MUST listen to 8 and 10 on BIS.They're brilliant. Far better than the CPO versions, valuable as they certainly are. 

I have started listening to AP for the first time ( Symp. No. 12 and Concerto No.1 on Caprice).  I'm coming to his music from years of listening to Shostakovich and am gaining interest in modern symphonists.  I will visit you site in the future with interest.  Could you tell me if there is an english translation of "Los muertos . . . " on the internet.  

Might anyone know of Pettersson autograph, letter,  or manuscript material available for sale?  As a great enthusiast of his work, I greatly desire to own some remembrance of the man.

I am very pleased to find this web page. 

Hello and greetings from Berne, Switzerland!!
It's just great to find something about one of the great composers of our century in the web. Thank you for it!
Daniel

When Peter Ruzicka joined the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as their artistic adviser, I was delighted. I expected him to add some Pettersson works to the RCO repertoire. Unfortunately we have heard nothing of him since.
So: Pettersson is still underrated in the Netherlands. Only violinist Isabelle van Keulen and her crowd were doing a wonderful job, playing lots of Pettersson's chamber works during their 1997 Delft Festival.
There is much to be done for this great composer. His great symphonies such as nos. 7 and 8 should be in the standard repertoire. On the other hand, it certainly has it's advantages to feel yourself a member of a small but congenial elite!  

Thank you for creating such an informative web page!  
Sandra

Allan Pettersson - the greatest composer of all times.
One of the greatest men in history of mankind. 

I run a public relations firm in Vancouver, Canada and on behalf
of a client I compose a newsletter that goes out every 2 weeks.

That letter follows my signature. 

Your site is mentioned in the last article.

Best regards,

Harold Gershuny 
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Welcome to the sixth edition of the AgritekSurfer, 
a free subscription e-mail newsletter about food safety 
and Agritek Bio Ingredients Corporation 


In the October 12 issue: 

-To serve, to strive and not to yield 
-Flowers in your hair 
-The Nina, the Pinta and the Donald 
-Who's the leader of the band? 
_________________________ 

This newsletter comes to you free of charge as a service of 
Investor Services Limited for Agritek Bio Ingredients 
Corporation, a publicly traded biotechnology company 
(AGK on the Montreal Exchange) that is dedicated to helping 
poultry and livestock producers make our food supply safer 
naturally. 

*You may have to cut and paste some long URLs in your browser* 

Visit Agritek's website: 

http://agritek.ca/ 


_____To Serve, To Strive, and Not to Yield_____ 

"Eccentric perhaps, innovator certainly, great beyond 
doubt," said HRH Prince Philip of Kurt Hahn, who is the 
individual most widely associated with the beginnings of 
Outward Bound. 

What is it? It's an international movement designed to help 
people develop confidence, compassion, an appreciation for 
selfless service to others, and a lasting relationship with 
the natural environment. Not a survival school, O.B. does 
offer, however, a rugged adventure in the wild during which 
participants, who can range from 8 to 80, receive unparalleled 
training in wilderness skills. 

How did this all start? During World War II, German U-boats 
targeted British merchant shipping with terrifying accuracy. 
The frigid waters of the North Sea claimed hundreds of seamen, 
with the greatest number of casualties among younger sailors, 
who were presumably more fit. 

German-born educator Kurt Hahn was commissioned to find 
the reason for this imbalance. Hahn soon realized that the 
younger inexperienced seamen weren't as well prepared for 
the rigors of survival in the open sea as were the older, 
more seasoned sailors. 

They gave in to panic. They gave out. Then they gave up. 

Hahn established a program of rugged training to help these 
young recruits develop mental toughness, which he believed 
was as necessary for survival as physical endurance. They 
needed confidence. They needed the presence of mind to 
overcome panic. Above all, they needed to learn to rely not 
only on rescue boats and life preservers, but on themselves. 

The name Hahn chose for his course referred to the moment 
when a ship leaves its safe harbour for the unknown dangers 
and adventure of the open sea. At that instant, the ship was 
said to be "outward bound." 

Today, more than fifty years after Kurt Hahn's success, Outward 
Bound is an international organization with over fifty schools 
and centers on five continents. 

My favorite (I've taken 2 one month long courses there.) is 
Outward Bound Sabah. Set on the shores of the South China 
Sea, some 18 kilometres from Kota Kinabalu on the Malaysian 
side of the island of Borneo, this school is a gem. 

Pack your bags and start travelling 

Drop in on Phil and Liz Windsor at their homes: 

http://www.royal.gov.uk/palaces/index.htm 

Pull out your passport, jump on a plane and say "Hi" to Chief 
Instructor Jiben Dass for me: 

http://www.infosabah.com.my/outwardbound/index.html 

You don't need a passport to sample Outward Bound USA: 

http://www.outwardbound.org/index3.html 

But if you're a cow in Britain--because of Mad Cow Disease-- 
you have to have a passport everywhere you go: 

http://bbcnews.org/hi/english/uk/newsid_181000/181704.stm 


_____Flowers in your hair_____ 

It was the 1960's. 

For some, it was a time of rebellion against the structures 
and expectations of the Eisenhower 50's. Son against father, 
daughter challenging mother, generation testing generation. 

And the younger age group adopted their own styles-some, 
such as earth shoes, granny gowns, bell-bottoms and  
John Lennon glasses were trivial. 

Some were more serious: drugs and the sexual revolution. 

And some changed our world: passion and commitment to causes, 
to change and growth. 

Civil rights, the woman's movement, the environment, New
Age ideas and vegetarianism owe a debt of gratitude to that
turbulent time. 


Nudity. Dancing. Hippies. Hair, the Musical 

http://www.stanford.edu/~toots/Hair/ 

The 60's are over, the time for Hair has passed. 

I'm not only the Hair Club president, I'm also a client. 
-Sy Sperling 

http://www.hairclub.com/ 

Maybe getting high wasn't such a good idea. 

http://www.drugfreeamerica.org/ 

October is Vegetarian Awareness Month 

http://www.hlthmall.com/healthmall/veganet/page_7.html 

101 shocking reasons why Pamela Teisler-Rice is a vegetarian: 

http://www.earthbase.org/vivavegie/vv101/101reas98.html 

Does Pamela know about poisoning by alfalfa sprouts? 

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/tpalfalf.html 

Or unpasturised juices? 

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/NEW00653.html 


_____The Nina, the Pinta and the Donald_____ 

Columbus Day commemorates the spirit of discovery. And 
Christobal Colon -his real name- towers above the rest as 
the man who embodies the will to achieve, the need to explore 
and the glory of adventure. 

Born and raised in Genoa, one of the oldest European 
seafaring communities, as a youth, Christopher Columbus 
made a number of Mediterranean voyages before he realized 
that God had called him to find the eastern passage to the 
Indies. Purely by accident, he landed in San Salvador 
(Our Saviour) and there proclaimed Spanish sovereignty. 

Strangely, the Americas were named for another Italian explorer 
 -- Amerigo Vespucci --who had absolutely nothing to do with 
their discovery. 

And, if truth be told, Columbus really didn't discover America. 
Lots of people lived here already and the Polynesians, 
Phoenicians and Vikings had hit the shores a long time 
before Chris arrived. 

In honour of Columbus's birthday, New York City selected 
October as "Italian History Month." 

Teach the children: 

http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/educate/columbus.htm 

In America, the need to explain origins, to create 
self-identity through national identity, is filled with the 
image of Columbus: 

http://members.aol.com/nonstopny/columbus.htm 

Columbus: American myth in history: 

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/COLUMBUS/col3.html 

Smoke Signals:The first full-length feature film written, 
directed and co-produced by American Indians. 

http://www.variety.com/filmrev/cfralso.asp?recordID=1117467104 

First come, first served. Leif Erikson arrived in 1001: 

http://home.rmci.net/khwmd/index.html 

Christopher Columbus overlooks Central Park at Columbus 
Circle in New York. Columbus Circle? Trump International Hotel! 

http://www.sunshinegroup.com/trump/trump_home.html 

Italians are famous for numerous things, including cooking: 

http://italianfood.miningco.com/ 

A longtime favorite is fish stew. 

http://diningaround.com/cioppino.html 

Scombroid poisoning? Huh?? 

http://www.foodsafety.org/sf/sf051.htm 


_____Who's the leader of the band 
                          that's made for you and me?_____ 

With a sharp eye and a steady hand, the Chairman of the 
Board needs to brings sage wisdom and entrepreneurial zeal 
to the most senior position in a corporation's structure. 
Agritek is fortunate to have Neil Raymond as its guiding light. 

Resident in Montreal, Canada, Neil learned about running 
businesses at his father's knee. The senior Raymond, a 
prominent Anglo-Canadian businessman who's guided 
multi-billion dollar investments in real estate, banking and 
movie theatres, has passed on the thrill of accomplishment 
to his son. Naturally, there are differences in their approach. 

While the father concentrated on large companies, Neil 
Raymond found that his greatest impact, and the surest route 
to creating wealth, is with smaller companies at an early stage. 

A noteworthy example is when he saw the promise of a obscure 
software firm. Raymond helped finance it at less than $3.00 
a share and with his guidance and an exemplary operations 
team, Softkey Systems transform itself into the Learning  
Company, and saw it's stock skyrocket in value to over 
$75 a share, an increase of 2500%! 

Neil is a founding shareholder of the Prime Restaurant Group 
(East-Side Mario's, Casey's, Irish Pub and Red Devil chains), 
a private company with revenues in the hundreds of millions 
of dollars and is chairman of the merchant bank that owns 
Denbridge Digital, an electronics firm focusing on devices 
for the marine, air and highway transportation field. 

Neil is also a classical music enthusiast--it's rumored his 
CD collection is in the tens of thousands-- and serves with 
distinction on the board of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. 

There is no doubt, however, that his focus is on Agritek. 

Neil represents the interests of all stockholders including 
a number of institutions which hold sizable amounts of AGK. 
And they and Neil Raymond and you and I call for the same 
outcome: the creation of wealth. 

And that's not Mickey Mouse. 

Ready to march? Remember the words and music? 

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/lyrics/mickey.htm 

No offence, Neil, but there is only one Chairman of the Board: 

http://www.nytimes.com/library/arts/051598sinatra-index.html 

Visit The Learning Company: 

http://www.learningco.com/ 

Safety, efficiency and security on the land, sea and air: 

http://www.denbridgedigital.com 

Welcome the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal: 

http://www.osm.ca/ 

The best website for info on classical composers: 

http://spight.physics.unlv.edu/picgalr2.html 

Neil Raymond's favorite composer is: 

http://oz.uc.edu/~cauthep/allan.html 



************************************************* 

The AgritekSurfer is a free, biweekly, e-mail newsletter 
for people who are interested in food safety and 
Agritek Bio Ingredients Corporation. 

We need your help to make this newsletter interesting 
and informative. If you find anything that we should 
include in the next letter, please let us know. 

And if you know anyone who may be interested in receiving 
this as well, please have him or her call 1-888-500-4585 
or e-mail us at mailto:info@investorservices.com. 

The AgritekSurfer will be back in two weeks. 

Regards, 


Harold Gershuny 
Editor 

This newsletter is published by Investor Services Limited 

If you are having problems receiving or reading this, send e-mail 
explaining the difficulty you are having to 

mailto:info@investorservices.com 

_____Legal Stuff_____ 

Investor Services Limited is not a registered investment 
adviser or a Broker/Dealer.  Readers are advised that the 
AgritekSurfer is issued solely for information purposes and 
is not constructed as an offer to sell or the solicitation 
of an offer to buy securities. 

The links, opinions and analysis included herein are based 
on sources believed to be reliable and in good faith but no 
representation or warranty, expressed or implied is made 
as to their accuracy, completeness or correctness. 

Readers are urged to consult with their own independent 
financial advisors with respect to any investment. 

All information contained in this report should be verified 
independently with the companies mentioned. 

Copyright Investor Services Limited 1998. 
All Rights Reserved 

I am cruising around the internet trying to gain some knowledge 
about classical music.  I am using Mining Co as a starting point 
and the description of Pettersson caught my eye.  At my new job 
I will be purchasing the CDs for a public library and the director
wants to beef up the Classical and Jazz selections. So here I am
surfing the net trying to refresh my memory about composers. I 
haven't looked at your site much yet...But I plan too.

Just checking UC Libraries' resources and how recently they had been updated

Your information is helpful in the preparation of my annotated bibliogarphy of the 20th century symphony.

I have been a Pettersson fan for several years. The first time I heard the 7th symphony, I was awe-struck. The 9th is also one of my favorites. I just ordered the new release of the 8th/10th on BIS. I get all my discs from EveryCD, which advertises in Fanfare. They carry a large selection of Pettersson, at wholesale prices. Thanks for maintaining a very informative web site. I wish American orchestras would perform some of Pettersson's music. How can a fan influence the decision of a Musical Director so that Pettersson can be programmed?

PLEAS RIGTH


YOU BIG DICK HEAD

Thanks for a web page with information on this great composer.
I am a cd collector of great composers and their Symphonies.
I have discovered Pettersson via the message board on Classicalinsites.com, bought his Sym No. 8 and that was the start of a wonderfull journey.
Currently I have  Symphonies 3,6,8 & 15 with the rest on order.
There is so much in his music, so much still to explore.

regards

thank you for taking the time to put together a nice site to
composer who needs to be better known.

Good page! It was a little sluggish today (no doubt because of 
the Holidays and all the hoo-haa over Clinton. Could not get
info on how to get Dorati's splendid recording of Pettersson's
7th Symphony (Swedish Society Discophil CD transfer)

Good page! It was a little sluggish today (no doubt because of 
the Holidays and all the hoo-haa over Clinton. Could not get
info on how to get Dorati's splendid recording of Pettersson's
7th Symphony (Swedish Society Discophil CD transfer)

I Just listened through his ninth symphony. It is instead of being 
at sea sailing. It may take another 50 years before the world 
really discover this extraordinary composer
gerik ;-))

Hello!!! My name is Maru
I'm from Japan.

I'm Webmaster of Gustavmahler 7th  Symphony  Fan Homepage.
adress is  

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood-Miyuki/2090/index.html

Please come to  my  HP.

(But  Japanese  only......)

Mr. Allan Pettersson makes me proud to be a swede. His music says so much.
I like this website.
So long, Hasse

A simple note to say that I am a bit sad to know that in Canada
the name alone is totally unknown! except by the maestro of the Vancouver 
orchestra Sergiu Comissiona who has done the 8th,but in Toronto 
the musically cultured people don't even know his name! What a
pity! Would that be nice if the Foundation could send a reminder
to the Toronto Symphony that a least his 7th should be added to
their repertory?  Thank you!

Have a most enjoyable day!

Daniel Hanequand  Toronto  visual artist (surrealist)

Just finished a document about Petterssons Sonatas for two
Violins. You may contact:
Alexander Keuk (IAPG), Rehefelder Str. 23, D-01127 Dresden.
No PC, I am Sorry...

Thank you for this fantastic site!

I was a bit surprised to find such a full stuff on this one of our greatest composers! Thanks! 

Just surfing the Webb and did some reading about the wery 
best swedish composer. Leif

great site, we are currently very envolved with the music of Allan Pettersson, the seven sonatas in particular. We have played a few at a time at different Swedish festivals last year. Febr 14th 1999 all 7 sonatas will be played as a sequence in one recital for the first time ever as far as is known.That takes place at the Musikhistoriska muséet in Stockholm.The sequence will later be performed in Borås, march 10th -99 and in Norrköping march 28th -99 and in Umeå april 17th-99.-Amazing music!
Duo Gelland   

I come from holland and I've got many of Pettersson's symphonies on cd. I really like his music and since I am a pianist I am interested in his lamento for piano, it would be nice to play that piece some time. It was a pleasure to visit your site. Greetings.

I come from holland and I've got many of Pettersson's symphonies on cd. I really like his music and since I am a pianist I am interested in his lamento for piano, it would be nice to play that piece some time. It was a pleasure to visit your site. Greetings.

Sir;  thank you very much for creating this exciting and comprehensive website for "a new Pettersson lover."  I really wanted to make just a few remarks about A.G.P., his music and the CPO "liner notes" about Allan P.
I first heard Pettersson's 8th Symphony via CBC Canada - which was taped from a Berlin broadcast in 1984.  I was impressed by the range of the sounds (the pallete) but my radio recording quailty was poor.  
Recently our wonderful Public library in downtown Calgary purchased Petterssons 3rd, 4th, 11th and 15th symphonies on 2 CD's AKA ""the CPO"" recordings.  Initially I was impressed with the Discography List but got quasi lost on the discussion of his music.  I then hit the Jack-Pot at the big music Store.  To this day that has been so memorable.  Imagine...almost all his music - except my soulfully close 8th symphony - on those CPO disks.  Well I bought up the 6th to 9th series and also the challanging 13th symphony.  I can tell you that as a Serious but musically uneducated collector of 20th Century music - including JAzz - I experienced a revitalization of music / novelty similar to my dicovery of Carl Neilson, Jan Sibelius and Dimitri Shostakovich.
For 3 months I have delighted in my Pettersson sound world of mystery, suspense and humanity. 
 
I could express many of my obervations about his Symphonic development but I will only say how astounded I am listening to the differences in each Symphony.  What originality from this man who must have loved humanity - or respected himself enough - to go on this huge quest of sharing his ideas with Us mortals.  Also, such great and inspired string writing from a trained Violist.  What Neilson is to woodwind writing Pettersson is to strings.

Lastly:  the CPO liner notes DO NOT help people in navagating the complex but exciting world of A.P's music.  I find them vague, pendantic, unconnected, and just plain of the mark.  Please please tell those folks to put forth better prose.  Maybe the translation from the German lost the meaning...oh well, I have his music now.

Signed...A very happy new Pettersson listener.
Paul A. Lawnikanis.  Feb, 99.

Sir;  thank you very much for creating this exciting and
 comprehensive website for "a new Pettersson lover."  I really
 wanted to make just a few remarks about A.G.P., his music and the
 CPO "liner notes" about Allan P.

I first heard Pettersson's 8th Symphony via CBC Canada - which was
 taped from a Berlin broadcast in 1984.  I was impressed by the
 range of the sounds (the pallete) but my radio recording quailty
 was poor.  

Recently our wonderful Public library in downtown Calgary
 purchased Petterssons 3rd, 4th, 11th and 15th symphonies on 2
 CD's AKA ""the CPO"" recordings.  Initially I was impressed with
 the Discography List but got quasi lost on the discussion of his
 music.  I then hit the Jack-Pot at the big music Store.  To this
 day that has been so memorable.  Imagine...almost all his music -
 except my soulfully close 8th symphony - on those CPO disks.
  Well I bought up the 6th to 9th series and also the challanging
 13th symphony.  I can tell you that as a Serious but musically
 uneducated collector of 20th Century music - including JAzz - I
 experienced a revitalization of music / novelty similar to my
 dicovery of Carl Neilson, Jan Sibelius and Dimitri Shostakovich.

For 3 months I have delighted in my Pettersson sound world of
 mystery, suspense and humanity.
 
 
I could express many of my obervations about his Symphonic
 development but I will only say how astounded I am listening to
 the differences in each Symphony.  What originality from this man
 who must have loved humanity - or respected himself enough - to
 go on this huge quest of sharing his ideas with Us mortals. 
 Also, such great and inspired string writing from a trained
 Violist.  What Neilson is to woodwind writing Pettersson is to
 strings.


Lastly:  the CPO liner notes DO NOT help people in navagating the
 complex but exciting world of A.P's music.  I find them vague,
 pendantic, unconnected, and just plain of the mark.  Please
 please tell those folks to put forth better prose.  Maybe the
 translation from the German lost the meaning...oh well, I have
 his music now.

Signed...A very happy new Pettersson listener.
Paul A. Lawikanis.  Feb, 99.

A very good document.Do you know my new work about Pettersson. I shall send it to you if you want.

I became interested in Petterson after stumbling onto his Sixth Symphony. I have acquired five or
six others, though the Sixth is still the one I gravitate to.  Not
that this is your subject, BUT, what I am actually after is information about a Polish composer who 
I know is/was living in Gothenberg twenty years ago and who is now 85 years old.  His 
name is Roman Maciejewski.  If ypou know anything about him...or your friends do, please pass it on to me.  If not, 
treat yourself to his Requiem on Polski Nagrana.  Thank you and
I appreciate your site.  Terry Baker.

I have loved the music of Allan Pettersson ever since I heard a sample of Dorati's recording of the 7th Symphony - and I remember a friend reduced to tears because "the beauty will end" when she first heard the 7th Symphony. 
So best wishes to everybody whose longing is a strange bird.

Hello --

I'm very excited to be going to Stockholm in two weeks, to 
finally hear the music of Pettersson in person, the 2nd violin 
concerto, no less.

I'm curious if anyone else who visits these pages is going to 
be there too?

Gary Scheele
San Francisco

I am fond of Petersson's 6th & 7th Symphonies.  Chris Brakel introduced both of these works to me.  I found this web site through a link on his site.

Yesterday I was in Berwald Hall in Stockholm and heard the concert
with Isabel van Keulen playing  Allan Petterssons Violin Concerto!
The performance was absolutely wonderful, the Swedish Radio
Symphony Orchestra played very good and the conductor, Thomas
Dausgaard was excellent! It would be interesting to see if
the result possibly could be a CD recording later! The Concert
contained also works by M Ravel a.o the two Suites Daphnis et
Chloë. Even that brilliant performances! The concert was also 
broadcasted in the Swedish Radio!  

Okay, I've seen better pages, but the information is good. Good help in my research project about Allan.

Thanks for putting up this page. I heard Petterson's Violin Concerto #2 on WHRB in Boston today, and was captivated. I wanted to find out more, and there was your page!

Please let me know where I can listen to live concerts of Petterson's music in the US or perhaps in Europe

I found your website to be fascinating.  As a composer of Swedish descent, I have searched a long time to find AP's scores and recordings.  I appreciate the work you have done on this website.  

Take a look on the US based Allan Pettersson Society's Home Page

http://www.azstarnet.com/~tgandet/Pettersson.html

Lars Erik Andrenius

I appreciate your gathering the information on Pettersson and
making it available.

My first contact with Pettersson's music was with the Dorati
recording of the 7th.  I then remember a protracted effort to get
the CBS record of the 6th in the United States.  Perhaps because
of the effort required, that piece remains my favorite.

I am amazed at the advance Pettersson made in coherent musical
thinking and expressive power between the 5th and 6th symphonies.
Where did this deepening of vision and confidence come from?  Are
there any other parallels so remarkable?
  

Thanks to Lars Erik Andrenius for telling us (who didn't know) about the Allan Pettersson Society´s Home Page.

Thanks for useable information for preparing program comments.

Thanks for useable information for preparing program comments.

Har precis fatt petterssons sjunde symfoni i present.Den ar fullkomligt javla makalos.Fy fan.
Skont att att det finns eldsjalar som gor hemsidor tillagnade sadana manniskor.Tack.
kristofer

Der groesste Sinfoniker dieses Jahrhunderts!

I was initially knocked out by the Dorati recording of Symph 7, then bought records of symphs 2,6,8,9,10,12,16 but I have to admit to feeling hugely disappointed with them all. Now I can listen to No 7, which I regard highly, but the rest of his works, the Violin Concerto(No 2) included, are a real letdown.  This may not please most of your readers, but that is my view.
I have however gtreatly enjoyed reading your website and will continue to read it for news, as Pettersson is certainly an interesting figure. 

Thank you for making this utterly astonishing page!
Now I can find info about one of my fave composers!

Keep up the good spirit and work!

Greetings from Norway!!!

I just saw the announcement on the Concert Calendar that there will be a performance of the  Sixth Symphony in Stockholm next March.  Would anyone know how tickets might be obtained?
Robert Simon, New York

critical and estetical informations are very few.you must find more witness about messages and sensorial feelings in the studioses and listeners of a.pettersson's works.continue!your way oof search and study is right!

Very good. How about a bit more backround information on the symphonies?

As I am a great fan of Allan Pettersson it is nice to visit this website. I very much like the BIS-recordings of his works, but unfortunately there is no recording planned for near future. I never heard the symphonies 13 and 14 and I hope that BIS will record them someday. I also found out that Leif Aare's biogrophy of Pettersson is not translated. Bad luck. I hope someone will do this sometime. 
I will visit this page again in future, so I hope it will be updated from time to time.

Kind regards,
Marc Geurtsen, The Netherlands

I am glad to see that there are other people admiring       Pettersson's music. I am trying to locate an English        translation of Leif Aare's biography of GAP. Is there any   more news on the CPO release of symphonies 12 & 17? I was   able to order the Swedish Society cds from Borders.                        Lewis Blanchard

Thank you for making this wonderful page!

The world of classical music is in debt with Maestro Pettersson

I just bought seven of Pettersson's symphonies on CPO and BIS,
to increase my collection to all but Symphony No. 12 and the
fragments of No. 1 and No. 17. I started out some months ago to 
learn No.2, which immediately bears the stamp of a great 
symphonist, but my great new Symphonies 6 and 8 make it difficult 
to concentrate on just one! Since most people I know say "Allan
Who?", I'm encouraged to find on this web page so many out there
in the world who have a similar opinion. Greetings from California.

I just wanted to leave my e-mail adress here!!!

Duo Gelland will perform the 7 sonatas for two violins in 
Berlin Domäne Dahlem 3.1. and 5.1. 2000. 
Duo Gelland recorded the sonatas on CD for BIS, will be
released in Febr 2000 as BIS CD 1028. 

I am a swedish musicologist and a great lover of Petterssons music. It is not to well known in sweden how admired Pettersson really is outside Sweden. This is a good-looking site and i will return. I will add it to my favourites!

sincerely, Toivo burlin

 Seit ich vor ca. 6 Jahren zum ersten Mal etwas von Pettersson
im Rundfunk hörte (es war die 7. Sinfonie unter Dorati), ist P.
für mich etwas ganz Besonderes. Ich schätze besonders die Sin-
fonien 6,7,8,9 und 14. Es bedarf allerdings eines besonderen
Kairos, um dieser Musik als Hörer gerecht werden zu können.
In glücklichen Augenblicken erzeugt diese Musik einen beglücken-
den Rauschzustand, ein seelisches Erlebnis sui generis. Manchmal
habe ich dann das Empfinden, die Musik komme aus mir und gehe
nicht von außen in mich ein. Leider habe ich noch nie Petterssons
Musik 'life' gehört. Es ist mein Wunsch, meine Lieblingssinfonien
einmal von guten Orchestern im Saal zu hören.

New release!!! BIS CD 1028 Allan Pettersson, 7 Sonatas for two violins with DUO GELLAND.
You can order it through all good music stores in the most countries.
Information on: http://www.bis.se/cdfiles/CD-1028.htm

I vill gärna lyssna på a p;s musik via datan- hur gör jag?

I have only been discovered this composer over the last 18 months or so. The Symhony no 9 grips me.  A remarkable composition - I would love to hear it live!  Such a protracted resolution into the wonderful (but hard won!) beauty of the closing bar.

I am very pleased to see such a thorough website dedicated to this great but little-known composer.  I hope that CPO eventually comes through with recordings of the 1st, 12th, and 17th symphonies and that the Naxos series will provide a good set of alternative performances, as have the new set of Bax recordings. Thank you very much for your dedication to this site.

I have enterd this page because I´m doing a schoolwork about 
music composer! Boooooring!!

To all Allan Pettersson-friens! The Swedish National Commission for the World Exposition EXPO 2000 Hannover will arrange on the Day of the Swedish Nation - that´s the 14th of june - in the presence of The Royale Couple a concert with the Swedish National Orchestra (The Orchestra of Gothenburg)where Mikko Franck will conduct the 7th symphony of Allan Pettersson in the KonzertHaus at the EXPO-Site. Hope many listeners can enjoy that magnificent concert!

I am very pleased to find such a webpage honoring Allan Pettersson.  I have read that the CPO recording of Symphony No. 1 awaits a decision by Pettersson's widow.  Has that decision been made?  If you have the answer to that question, please let me know.  Thanks very much. 

I'm new to the internet and was delighted to find this site.  I've been a Pettersson fan since the mid-1970s and it's good to know that many others share my enthusiasm.  I've always been particularly bowled over by Symphonies 6, 7 & 8 and a quarter of a century later they still have the same effect, which makes them very special in the history of music to my ears.

Thank you for making so much information available.

12 August 2000

    Pettersson has really changed my life, I only met him two months ago, yet I am deeply amazed at his music. He undoubtedly will be the new musical personality in the 20th century, together with the great ones, such as Shostakovich or Mahler.I would like to belong to some club or association devoted to his music. Please, be so kind to keep me informed of any initiative like this. Oh, his Sixth Symphony, I really feel like that music, he is my voice now.

Nice to see that there are more AP-fans! My first experience with his music was with Symphony no. 13, talking about BIG music! WHY are almost all great symphonists of this century so hard to find on disc? Take Simpson, Holmboe or Vainberg to name a few. His music is said to be egocentric, extremely complex and pssimistic. So what, ever listend to Mahler? Or Wagner, the ultimate egoblaster. Stockhausen is much more complex, with far less music. Go, CPO, go!!

I know all the simphonies of G.A.Pettersson and I think he is one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. His music is very rich, dense and colourful and I consider his simphonies in one mouvement (as the 9th) authentic masterpieces of the music of all the times. The 8th Simphony in two parts is one of my favourites.

I am a recent convert to the music of Allan Petterson.
He is fascinating and disturbing. Rarely have I encountered music that demands so much of my ability to focus but at the same time leave all I've learned behind. Emotionally draining yet spiritualy rewarding. I have only heard Symphony #2. I fear and beg to hear more.

I'm very glad to see a website dedicated to Mr. Petterson.
I have not heard all his symphonies (nos.15 & 16), but I 
find his music (especially symphonies nos. 5-9) hauntingly
beautiful, sad, neurotic and very expressive. Mr. Petterson
music (I think) can only be understood by knowing about
his tragic life. Anyway, I glad to have discovered your
website. Thanks for putting Mr. Petterson on the net.

Thanks,

I have know AP's music for about 20 years and it is good to see his work appearing more frequently on record.

I am glad to find a page on Pettersson, I have only recently discovered this amazing composer and I must say I have enjoyed everything I have heard from him.  I was first trying to find dark classical music, then bought Pettersson's 6th symphony and wow, what an experience.  If anyone knows of other classical music I may want to look into, feel free to email me at ink3351@aol.com.  Keep up the good page.

Thanks to CPO for recording overwhelming music of Allan Pettersson.

It's a wonderful site. Thank you for helping to spread the word 
about AP. I am a painter who's work has all been inspired by 
Classical music. A.P. 8th has recently been the catalyst for one
of my paintings.

TJOHO

great and well organized website!

At this time, I know nothing about this composer, and have never listened to any of his music. I like Lutaslowski, Penderecki, Simpson, and other modern composers. If Pettersson's music is anything like theirs, then I am sure that I will like it. 

I am impressed by what little I have heard of the music of Alan Petterssen. I bought the CD of Symphony No.14 in a second hand shop here in Toronto. I had no idea what his music sounded like. I had only seen his name mentioned once before - in the catalogue issed by CPO. But, in any case, I was curious about a composer who had written this number of symphonies in the twentieth century.  I listened as carefully as I could, and made notes on the music, noting the musical events which occurred and the time shown on the CD player. It was a rewarding experience, so much so that I went out and purchased a new copy of Symphony #7, which I liked even better. 

It has become clear to me that Alan Pettersson  

I am just starting to discover Pettersson's music, having bought recordings (on cpo) of four of his symphonies (7,9,10,11) in the last two days.  Previously, I only had a vague memory of hearing the Dorati recording of the 7th many, many years ago.  What a remarkable composer!  I can't wait to hear the other symphonies.  

Dear Allen,

I am a representative for a new music notation software company called
NoteHeads.  We recently released our latest MAC version of our program
Igor Engraver 1.4 (we have plans to release the PC version in mid-summer
2001).  Below is a short listing of the features I have found very
useful.

A full version of our program can be downloaded and used for 30 days
from:
http://www.noteheads.com/

If you have any comments or have specific needs from a notation software
for your future compositions, I would love any feedback you may be able
to give.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Bryan Doughty
NoteHeads USA
178 Ledyard Street
New London, CT 06320
860 444-2862




1.  You can enter notes, dynamics, articulations, crescendos, slurs,
barlines. noteheads, trills, etc. from the keyboard all at once.  Enter
a quarter note and want a Forte, touch “f”, to add an accent, type “>”,
want a slur, touch “l”, when the slur should end type “l”, etc.   No
need to go to any palettes!
2.  There is only one file for parts and score, no extraction needed.
If you add something to a part, it gets added to the score, if added to
the score it gets added to the part.  You can even have several layouts
of the same score and part in the one file.
3.  Control-click any items on the screen and you will get all options
for that item.  For example:  If you control-click a note or group of
notes the options are;  “delete, change color, ottava passage,
show/hide, mute, change duration, stem direction, show/hide accidental.
slash notation, cross staff and scale note.”
4.  Anything on the screen can be moved.  Just click on it and move it
with the arrows or mouse.  Once again, no palettes needed!
5.  When inputting music with the keypad you can copy and paste by
highlighting a note or section of notes and copy and paste where you
went them to go.  No need to leave input mode.  This applies to
transposing as well.  Highlight and use the up or down arrow keys, or
press “command-t” for a large interval.
6.  To add rehearsal, tempo or specialty marks, choose your tool and
click the note where you would like it to appear and type the text
needed.  The font, size and style can be changed as well as location.
7.  Working with layouts is very easy.  Igor will layout the measures
and systems so they are properly spaced.  You can then choose to move
them anywhere you would like, but I have found that I do not have to
move items very often.  Control-click a page and move your system to the

next page, control-click a measure and move it to the previous or next
system.  you can even glue 2 measures together so they always appear on
the same line of music.
8.  Mirroring:  If you have entered a part and the next part has the
same rhythms, use our mirror feature.  This will mirror the rhythms of
the first part in the second part and you will  only have to choose the
pitches.
9. Sticky Triplets:  Enter your starting note value and press option-3.
If you have many triplets in a  row press option-shift-1 and Igor will
enter triplets until you tell Igor to stop (press option-shift-1 once
again).
10.  Guitar TAB:  Enter your music, choose add TAB and the TAB is
displayed on the screen for you.  Move a pitch and the TAB moves as
well.
10+1.  When a file is completed upload to the web and place it for sale
on our website (http://www.noteheads.com).  We have designed a reader
that allows the consumer to view a score with a pre-purchase banner and
hear playback.  The consumer will only be able to see and hear what you
allow them to see and hear until purchase.  After purchase they will be
able to print out a copy without the banner.

I'm desperate to hear a Pettersson symphony live. I missed the 7th in Stockholm in January. Please inform me if you hear of one, anywhere!

excellent site

Today I have got a book about Allan Pettersson as birthday gift. The book is written in swedish by Laila Barkefors: "Allan Pettersson. Det brinner en sol inom oss. En tonsättares liv och verk". In the preface i found the webbadress to you. I found yor site very interesting, especially the information about records of his music.

I am always trying listen to his music "live". The latest concert we visited (my and my husband)was Petterssons 7th Symphony in the Berwaldhallen, Stockholm. Conductor was Daniel Harding

As a Pettersson-fan I will regurlary visit your eminent homepage.

I love this man's music
I would like to see a sample of Sym.#9 even though there is only one recording now available.
I am anxiously awaiting the promised BIS release
Does anybody know when this might happen?
Meanwhile keep up the good work of bringing Pettersen's music to the attention of the public.

Thank You

I've been a huge admirer and enthusiast of Pettersson's music 
since I discovered him in the 1970's. His symphonies, especially,
are testaments to the hardships and difficulties and sometimes
triumphs of human life. I do not understand why the major 
orchestras have not done more to promote his music rather than to
perform the old war horses over and over again. Only some Swedish
and second-rank German orchestras seem to have taken up his cause
as well as a few conductors-Dorati, Commissiona and Alun Francis. 

Gerlachs väg 13
432 51 Varberg
Sweden

'ai découvert la musique de Pettersson alors que je traversais une profonde crise existentielle...
L'oeuvre de Allan Pettersson pour moi à chaque écoute une leçon de vie et de lutte à la recherche de ma propre vérité et de la transcendance musicale, au-delà de la souffrance physique ou morale.
J'aime en particulier les symphonies N° 9 (notamment pour les incroyables superpositions rythmiques qu'elle suppose dans la répétition), la treizième (une immense colère orchestrale) et le chant d'espoir et de salvatrice réconciliation qu'est la quinzième...
Mais je ne comprends pas comment l'on fait grand cas d'un Chostakovitch (par ailleurs très proche parfois de Pettersson dans ses symphonies 8 et le premier mouvement de la dizième) et que l'on néglige à ce point l'oeuvre du composteur suédois...

Vincent Béry
67 rue centrale
7300 Boussu
Belgium
tel int 32 65 77 00 86
  

Voices are quickly quieted in these noisy times.  Who has the energy to speak above the clamor.  ... I was a bit surprised with the Cauthens' web pages:  Once upon a time, I knew Kenneth Cauthen.  He was in my class, 7th grade in Spalding Co, Ga, a very long time ago.  Adieu,  Claire Rousseau 

Allan Pettersson was indeed a remarkable man. A few months ago t a film about him was shown in Swedish television. I recorded it and has seen it over and over again. A prophetlike man, marked by a hard upbringing in Europes poorest distrikt, Södermalm, as it was in the first decades of the 20´th century.
He´s an icon in our home now. Somebody to think about now and then when life is hardboild and somewhat thick chew.

what the name of the 7th symfony? is it about winter?

Hello... I like the music of Allan Pettersson very much, even if I do not know everything yet. I'm glad, that this site exists, I will surely come back later to read it ... now I don't have the time... 

The "Internationale-Allan-Pettersson-Geselschaft" has bee founded
by a friend of mine and myself in 1985 in Berlin. Before that we
had founded a "Pettersson-Freundeskreis" in Munich in 1981. I became a friend of Gudrun Pettersson for years and visited her 
several times in Sweden.She often sad, that it has been a miracle
for her to meet me. For me it had been the same.The climax in my
work or Allan Pettersson has been the great project in Germany concerning the Performance of nearly all symphonies hier in Nord-
rhein-Westaflen and a lot of chamber-music from the maestro.It
had been 67 concerts in one saison and a symposion. Allan Petterssons music i a certain way has educeted me and changed a
lot of things in my life. I am very thankful to Allan therefore
an he is still alive in my heart.

Thanks for providing this web page. I really love Allan Pettersson's fifth and seventh symphonies and have been looking a long time for a good recording of his ninth, which I once owned on LP. 

     When will the musical world discover Allan Pettersson?
Why haven't orchestras and conductors(with the exception of a few like Dorati, Commissiona, Segerstam and Francis)taken up his cause? All we get at concerts, radio and new discs are the same old war horses. Don't they realize that Allan Pettersson was one of the 3 great 20th Century symphonists along with Shostakovitch and Mahler? 

   I was first enticed to buy an Alan Pettersson CD by a rapturous review, published in Fanfare Magazine about 10 years ago, of Dorati's performance of the Seventh Symphony.  Since then, I have acquired all of the Pettersson CDs that I know of, and many of the LPs. (But unfortunately, I have never heard Kamu's LP of the Sixth Symphony.) 

   Pettersson's symphonies are among the most expressive, powerful, and overwhelming that I know.  Some of my friends find them depressing; to me, these people are only listening to the surface, they are not really hearing it.  Some of the later music is so complex that it will take a true genius to conduct it effectively.  We may have to wait for such a champion before Pettersson's music becomes more widely known and accepted.  In the meantime, I am profoundly grateful for the CD's that have been released in the last 10 years.  Get them now before they disappear!

   One thing, which I recommend to all lovers of Pettersson's music, is to take the time to listen to his symphonies sequentially, in the order of their composition.  They form a remarkable unity.  It becomes apparent that the symphonies really are autobiographical, that they mirror the inner world of the composer sequentially through the stages of his adult life.  I don't know of any other music that does this, or any other composer who has attempted to accomplish such a thing.  

   Finally, don't let anyone try to tell you that 20th century music does not communicate the way that Romantic or Classical music communicates with an audience.  Pettersson's music is aimed totally at communication.  There is nothing academic, nothing elitist about this music.  The entire purpose of its existence is to reach out and speak directly to the audience.  When will the rest of us be able to grasp this?

Love the works of Petersson and would like to write to anyone who feels the same way- i have heard the symphonies - 7 and 9 and 13 and love them - all- i am a composer- poet- and -teacher myself- best wishes to all my friends- Keith.

keep in touch.
I have all the CPO AP recordings, look forward to more.
I like AP music because of it's depth, each time you listen you understand more, appreciate more. AP said so much, his depths challenge even those of Gustav Mahler.

John Snedden

I have read the biographical sketch with great interest. I have only just been introduced to Petterson's music by a friend.

It does seem to be very unusual work - almost mesmerising.

Is his widow still living?

I AM AN ENGLISH COMPOSER- POET- HEALER AND TEACHER AND I LOVE THE MUSIC OF ALLAN PETTERSSON- I HAVE HEARD AT LEAST FOUR OF THE SYMPHONIES AND THINK IN PARTICULAR THAT THE THIRTEENTH SYMPHONY IS OUTSTANDING. ALL MAY WRITE TO ME- BEST WISHES- KEITH.

can you possibly give me some information where i can find sym 6 by kamu cbs masterworks 76553 not available in the states.....i also would like to know if you can find sym 7 by dorati decca 6538 also not available in the states. i appreciate your effort...

Nice bio and discography. 

Vem ska jag tacka för musiken nu när Allan Pettersson är död ?
Jag är 68 år och syndikalist. Vill skicka en varm hälsning... jag vet inte vart.

Without a doubt, the 8th Symphony is one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century. I have it on DG LP with Sergiu 
Comissiona and the Baltimore Symphony, purchased 23 yrs. ago, and I am continually fascinated by it. It is greatly moving, thrilling, haunting and exciting.

I have only begun an acquaintance with the music of 
Allan Pettersson (and like some work I once did on Linnaeus,
I wish I had command of Swedish, the better to appreciate his
own words and those of his compatriot reviewers).  But the 
music is universal, and the violin sonatas commanding. More
inclined to chamber music, I am at a disadvantage when it comes
to the great body of Mr. Pettersson's symphonic work, which I
nevertheless shall listen to.  21 April 2003

Adr. Gerlachs väg 13
432 51 Varberg
Sweden

1994,I first heard the music of ALLAN PETTERSSON!It was the 8th symphony.It was fantastic!Such an emotionality,expression!From that moment my love for HIS music began!I started to surch all his symphonies and I found them with the help of my mothers friend,a musicologist.Accept for the 1 and 17,they are not availibile at this moment...I hope they will be recorded!ALLANS music is very difficult at the start but after several hearings fantastic!His music is metaphysical,an adventure to the deepest places of your own mind and hart!When you hear and listen at HIS music you never forget it,it marks you for live!So try it!I've heard a lot of music but the music of AP is the max!He is invented a new language:the sincere song of the hart!DEAR ALLAN THANK YOU FOR THIS MUSIC...!!  

The last update on the Allan Pettersson page was in December, 2001.  Please let Pettersson fans (and those who could become interested in this great composer) know of any current developments.  Many Thanks.

I am just discovering Pettersson via a recording of the 7th and 11th symphonies...Initially, I was not impressed, and even put off...the music sounded like the dramatization of a nervous breakdown...Eventually, I was able to experience the music's beauty and power and I succumbed to it...I look forward to exploring many more of the symphonies.

At last! A superb site celebrating this brilliant composer!

Bjorn Sverre Kristensen, composer, assistant professor of music, Norway

It was hard to find a Petterson page but finaly i did it. Thank you for the disposable information in your site. I never heard Petersons music, but it seems to have a dark atmosphere which i like. I will soon buy a record.