Swedish Composers: Daniel Börtz by Sara Norling

Daniel Börtz says in an interview in 1977: "I want to write emotionally honest music – if I can take such big words in my mouth. Give out everything I have of feeling inside." Then he is a young composer who already in a number of orchestral works in his own way combined the legacy of Swedish modernism with a fierce love for the late romantic orchestral buildings at Bruckner. The public breakthrough comes when he collaborates with Ingmar Bergman in the opera Backanterna in 1991.

268 pages. Publication year 2017. (The book is in Swedish)