Vägmärke / text [by] Dag Hammarskjöld ; music [by] Serge de Gastyne. 1965 March 20.

Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Music Library. General Manuscript Collection.

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Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961

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Dag Hammarskjöld served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in Africa in September 1961. From the description of Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10580969 Dag Hammarskjöld was born on 29 July 1905, in Jönköping, Sweden, and died 18 Sept. 1961, near Ndola, in Northern Rhodesia. He was a Swedish economist and statesman who served as second secretary-general of the ...

Sjöberg, Leif.

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De Gastyne, Serge

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Composed 1957. First performance Cincinnati, Ohio, 12 April 1957, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Thor Johnson conductor. Dedicated to the memory of Arthur Honegger.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Hollin Hall : ode for orchestra / Serge De Gastyne. [195-]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 44158455 Commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Composed 1955. First performance Cincinnati, Ohio, 7 January 1956, Ciincinnati Symphony O...

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

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Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), poet, was born in York, England, on February 21, 1907. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, from 1925-1928, then served as a schoolmaster in various institutions in England and Scotland from 1930 to 1935, including The Downs School in Colwell. In 1935 Auden married Erika Mann, a writer and the daughter of Thomas Mann, so that she could gain British Citizenship and escape Nazi Germany. Although the two never lived together, they remained married until Mann's death in ...