7 from Gustaf II Adolf

The composers are Samuel Borgström

One idea is to carry forward the poem and its message

but increasingly weak as the sparrows fall

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Oboe Sonata – The Puppeteer Dop (vuxna) 7 from Gustaf II AdolfEven as a child I had always a special fascination for puppets and marionettes. The plays and especially the dolls had something ambivalent about them and the puppet theatre often contained both comedy, violence and deep tragedy. The writer Wallace Fowlie described this contrast in his essay Petrouchkas Wake with the words: He [Petrouchka] is already, at the beginning of each performance, in the domain of death. The jerkiness and the unpredictability