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Career

A number of Janson’s works bear the mark of his jazz background, and several of his earliest compositions are written for a jazz line-up, including Patrice Lumumba (1961) for piano, bass, and drums. From 1962 onwards, Janson would gradually focus more on notated music and gained recognition with works such as November (1962) for piano and Vuggesang for 48 strykere og sopran (1963). 1966 saw his orchestral work Konstruksjon og hymne winning the prize for best non-Dutch work at the Bilhoven Festival. The same year also saw Janson’s international breakthrough at the ISCM World Music Days with the work Kanon for chamber orchestra and audio tape. Other major Janson works include the ballet Mot Solen (1969), the opera A Mountain Fairytale (1972), Interlude for violin and orchestra (1975), Interlude for orchestra (1985), National Hymn (1988), Livsfrise for cello, choir and orchestra (1999) and En bibelhistorie for actor and 15 musicians. For the latter work, Janson was bestowed with the 2008 Edvard Prize.^[3]

One of Janson’s most frequently performed works is Sonnet No 76 for choir and solo voice (2000). The work has been recorded for a number of releases including The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir (2006), which commissioned it, as well as NOVA Chamber Choir. 2014 saw Tine Thing Helseth performing Janson’s trumpet concerto Variations over Variations on a Norwegian folk tune, a work that has its basis in Edvard Grieg’s work opus 24, Ballad in g-minor.^[4]

Political themes have often served as an inspirational source for Janson, and he is one of the few Norwegian composers who has had a demonstration held against a performance of one of his works, Interlude for orchestra og accordeon, a work written as a salute to Arne Treholt, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union in a trial in 1985. In the more humorous-political genre, Valse Triste marks a milestone – and is viewed as a critical collage of early 70s Norwegian cultural debate. More recent works with a clear political trait include 2003’s A Bagdad Blues (not for Blair, not for Bush) which Janson wrote in protest against the Operation Iraqi Freedom invasion of Iraq.^[5]

Alfred Janson is the recipient of a number of prizes and awards bestowed to him on grounds of his career as a composer and performer. He was awarded the 1988 Lindeman Prize, the 2010 Gammleng Award as well as the 2008 Edvard Prize. In 1991, Janson was the composer in residence at the Bergen International Festival as well as the Oslo Chamber Music Festival. In autumn 2016, Alfred Janson was bestowed with the Arne Nordheim Composer's Prize.

Production

Selected works

Discography

References

1. ^{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Alfred Janson |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Arvid |last=Vollsnes |editor=Helle, Knut |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Alfred_Janson/utdypning |language=Norwegian|accessdate=14 March 2012 }}
2. ^{{cite encyclopedia|title=Alfred Janson |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Alfred_Janson |language=Norwegian |accessdate=14 March 2012}}
3. ^{{cite web|url= http://musicnorway.no/artist/alfred-janson/ |title= Bio from Music Norway |website= musicnorway.no |date= |accessdate=2016-12-05}}
4. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.grappa.no/en/albums/simax-classics/alfred-janson-nasjonalsang/|title= Bio from record label Grappa |website= grappa.no |date= |accessdate=2016-12-05}}
5. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.listento.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2002101118511948764476/ |title= Bio from MIC Music Information Centre Norway |website= listento.no |date= |accessdate=2016-12-05}}

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