Torsten Mossberg - Songs by Dan Andersson: 'A Fiddler's Last Journey' (2024)

Dan Andersson died at the age of 32 in 1920, more than 100 years ago. His poetry is still relevant and beloved. Many can still recite his poems and sing many of the compositions. He is one of Sweden's most important poets, a romantic working-class poet who gave voice to the poor in the country, depicted areas and conditions in Sweden that had hardly been illuminated before. One of the great strengths of his poetry is that it is universal, human and beautiful. Nature, love and the conditions of life play the biggest role.

Torsten Mossberg is a physician, specialist in anaesthesiology and intensive care. He has studied singing with Esther Ruhrseitz, Eva Pilat and Björn Thulin, among others. He has extensive experience as a choir singer, tenor in the Oscar Chamber Choir in Stockholm and often engaged as a soloist. Torsten has a wide repertoire – everything from ballads to romances and cabaret songs and regularly gives concerts with different themes. He has recorded a number of CDs for Sterling, mainly with rarely recorded songs by Swedish composers, e.g. by Allan Pettersson and Lille Bror Söderlundh, but also songs by Kurt Weill, Swedish broadsides and songs by Carl Michael Bellman and Evert Taube. The most recent edition is Dreams, compositions of Nils Ferlin's poems (CDA1869).