Bror Beckman

Bror Beckman (2 February 1866 – 22 July 1929) was a Swedish composer, treasurer to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and principal of the Royal College of Music. Stylistically he was strongly influenced by Carl Nielsen and other contemporary Nordic composers. Among his compositions, his symphony in F major has been singled out, together with several pieces for piano, as particularly lasting. Biography Bror Beckman was born in Kristinehamn. His grandfather was the pastor and hymn writer . After finishing upper secondary school, his first job was in a music shop in Kristiania (present-day Oslo) in 1884. Later the same year he moved to Stockholm, to work in a music shop there. In 1888 he started working as a clerk in an insurance company, a job he would keep until 1909. In parallel he pursued studies in musical composition for 1885–1890. During this time, he made lifelong friends with several other young Swedish composers: Harald Fryklöf, and . After finishing his studies he immediately took up teaching counterpoint at a musical institute in Stockholm run by . In 1893 the first musical composition by Beckman was printed. He received a state-sponsored scholarship in 1894 and made a st