Welcome to the official website for the Sven-David Sandström Society, dedicated to the promotion of the music and legacy of Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström.

Here, you will find a comprehensive guide to Sandström’s compositions for choir, orchestra, opera, solo instrument, and chamber ensemble, with links to scores for purchase and/or hire from publishers as well as links to available recordings.

The SDSS is committed to promoting research on Sandström’s music, as well as that of other Swedish composers. To access videos, books, dissertations, and radio broadcasts, visit our Media and Research pages.

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Sven-David Sandström (1942–2019) was a prolific Swedish composer who wrote over 600 works for choir, orchestra, opera, solo instrument, and chamber ensemble. He rose to international acclaim after the world premiere of his orchestral piece Through and Through (1972) at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. He was professor of composition at the Royal College of Music Stockholm from 1985–1995, and later at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music from 1998–2008, and again from 2012–2018.

Read Sandström’s full bio here

A selection of Sandström’s prominent works include:

• Through and Through (1972)

• A Cradle Song/The Tiger (1978)

• De Ur Alla Minnen Fallna (Requiem) (1979)

• Drums (1980)

• The High Mass (1994)

• Music for the Church Year (2008–2011)

• Matthäuspassion (2014)

• Book of Life (2019)


Photo by Ulla Montan

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