Symphony No.1 - Allan Pettersson / Christian Lindberg

Norrköping Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christian Lindberg. I - : 0:00 Pettersson’s Symphony No.1 was begun in 1951, which puts it the in the period of his Seven Sonatas, the Concerto No.1 for String Orchestra, and his studies in Paris with Leibowitz and Honegger. Pettersson mentions in a letter to the conductor Tor Mann: “I am in the process of augmenting my catalogue of transgressions with a symphony, which is approaching completion. It is getting bigger and bigger, while I am getting smaller and smaller — and, when it is finally ready, all that will probably remain of Pettersson [sic] will be the spectacles.“ However, on 9th June 1952, the composer wrote to the musicologist Bo Wallner, who knew about the project: “You were asking, among other things, about my symphony; after recent experiences and insights, and in particular on account of my own dissatisfaction with it (nobody has seen a note of it, because in my own compositions [as opposed to his student wo