The life of Hugo Alfvén

A chronology by Lennart Hedwall from "Hugo Alfvén", Stockholm 1992

	1872-1899
	1900-1919
	1920-1939
	1940-1960

1920		With OD in Norway. RNO (Knight of the North Star Order). Midsommarvaka as a ballet in Paris and London (Swedish Ballet, Börlin). Lindagull. Gustaf Vasa.
1921		Guest conductor in Frankfurt and Helsinki. Elected first conductor wiithin the Swedish Male Choir Association (until 1943). Symphony No. 4 performed twice in Vienna during the autumn. Plans for two operas: Heidenstam's Eumenides and Selma Lagerlöf's The Tale of Gösta Berling.
1922		Conducts performances of the ballet Midsommarvaka in Vienna. 50th birthday celebrated with an Alfvén concert at Skansen in Stockholm. Summer on Capri: takes up painting again.
1923		Bergakungen (The Mountain King) completed and performed at the Royal Opera. Leads the fourth Swedish Male Choir Festival in Gothenburg comprising 6,500 singers.
1924		Conducts OD in Helsinki, Copenhagen and Paris. Journey to Italy (until 1925). Cantata for the 50th Anniversary of the World Postal Union.
1925		Exhibition of his water colours for the first time in Uppsala during the spring. Resigns directorship of OD, but is persuaded to stay. Invited to become a honorary director of the Swedish Choir Association, but declines. En båt med blommor (A Boat with Flowers).
1926		With OD in Kiel, and with the Swedish Male Choir Association's elite choir in Lübeck, Berlin, Prague and Vienna.
1927		Uppsala University Cantata.
1928		Tours with OD in Denmark, Holland and Belgium and with the Male Choir Association's Choir in Norrland. OD's 75th Anniversary. Manhem.
1929		With OD in Finland, the Baltic States and Spain. Guest conductor at a Festival of Swedish Music in Barcelona. Moves into Musicum, the new director musices building in Uppsala.
1930		Directs 7,500 singers at the fifth Swedish Male Choir Festival at the Stadium, Stockholm. Allmänna Sången's 100 year anniversary. Cantata for the Swedish Red Cross, Homage to Humanity.
1931		OD performs at a Scandinavian Academic Singers' Meeting in Copenhagen. The residence in Tällberg is sold. Dalarapsodi.
1932		Music to Ludvig Nordström's Play "Vi" (We) on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the death of Gustavus Adolphus.
1933		Guest conductor in London.
1934		Music for the film "Synnöve Solbakken".
1935		Elected director of the newly-formed Uppsala mixed student choir (until 1938).
1936		Directs at the sixth Swedish Male Choir Festival in Gothenburg. New ballet on Midsommarvaka (Lalla Cassel). Divorce from Maria, married to Carin Wessberg.
1937		Emeritus as director musices, but appointed until 1939. Attends the Composer Congress in Paris during the summer. With the Siljan Choir in Norway.
1938		With the Swedish Male Choir Association's elite choir in USA. Guest conductor in Philadelphia and Boston, offered the conductorship of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
1939		Final concert with Akademiska Kapellet in Uppsala. Own radio concert in May, broadcast to nine countries. With OD in Norway. Moves to the Sämskar house in Leksand (until 1945).
1900-1919		1940-1960