RESOUNDING ECHOES: From August 2022, Robert McCarney's regular series features little-known twentieth century classical composers.
Swedish composer Åke Oskar Verner Hermanson was born in Mollösund on 16 June 1923.
He wrote four symphonies, leaving a fifth incomplete when he died in Stockholm on 8 August 1996, aged seventy-three. His output also includes instrumental, chamber, vocal and choral music, and he made settings of poems by Pär Lagerkvist, Ebba Lindqvist, Karl Vennberg and Anna Greta Wide.
Echoes of Oblivion by Robert McCarney - Rough winds do shake