Ivar Hallström

Training under Edmund Passy is recorded. Ika Peyron is recorded as having studied under Ivar Hallström. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Employment is recorded with Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Distinctions recorded are Litteris et Artibus.

Hallström was born and died in Stockholm. Although he learnt the piano, he was self-taught as a composer. He studied law in Uppsala and in 1853 was appointed librarian to Prince Oscar which assisted him in advancing his career as a composer. His operas in collaboration with the librettist Frans Hedberg launched his operatic career, where he was particularly able to use Swedish folk tunes effectively. Hallström introduced a flavour of Gallic wit into his light operas, many of them based on French libretti. Fourteen operatic works survive. He was one of the founding members of Sällskapet Idun, a men's association founded in Stockholm in 1862. After many years neglect, Hallström’s operas were revived, in Umeå in 1986 with Bergtagna, seen also at the York Early Music Festival in 1988, Hertig Magnus at Vadstena in 1988 and 2000, also broadcast on Swedish television, and Liten Karin in 1997, also at Vadstena, with Malena Ernman as Princess Cecilia.

Ivar Hallström is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Classed in the genre opera. Recorded as composer, musicologist, university teacher, pianist and librarian. Formation and teaching. He trained under Edmund Passy. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.