Albert Schnelzer

During the 21st century, Albert Schnelzer has taken his place among the most widely noticed younger Swedish composers. His music has been described as ‘forward going’, ‘aggressive’, and ‘instrumentally demanding’ but also as ‘fragile and vibrating’ and as ‘following an aesthetic that is more about personal expression than being modernistic correct’. The music press has praised his inventiveness and personal musical language and he has a firm reputation among musicians for his ability to write idiomatic, but at the same time highly original. Albert Schnelzer has openly declared that communication is a key element in his music and he explains with his own words, ‘for me, there are basically two primary activities in human music history: dancing and singing. Therefore, I have worked intensively with developing such somewhat neglected elements such as pulse, meter and melody. Gaining complexity by combining simple musical elements has always been very interesting to me’.