Helge Lindberg
Helge Igor Lindberg (1887–1928) was a Finnish opera singer who was a popular concert singer in the 1920s throughout Europe. He was also a sculptor. Helge Lindberg first studied violine at the conservatory in Helsinki. In 1907, he studied voice in Munich and finished his studies in Florence. His was a famous singer for pieces of Johann_Sebastian_Bach, George_Frideric_Handel and Yrjö Kilpinen.
From Musica Fennica (1965) (Timo Makinin and Seppo Nummi, authors): "Helge Igor Lindberg, [a] baritone, spent a significant part of his life in Vienna. He was a great individualist both as a private person and as an artist, and his legendary career was to be both strange and extraordinary. Immediately on leaving school he left the country to study singing abroad. He first travelled to Munich and from there to Florence and Stuttgart. In 1919 he settled in Vienna and died there suddenly in 1928 after a serious illness. His best years were the last years of his life. Helge Lindberg was a powerful man, an athlete both in his looks and in his artistic demands. He was famous for his breathing technique. He liked to sing the arias of Bach and Handel and had mastered their long phrases, developing his own technique to an almost superhuman degree. He was also interested in his contemporary modernists, such as Schoenberg. Of Finnish composers his repertoire mostly included Kilpinen's songs. His fame as a singer was based on a technique that had been developed to perfection and on his minutely-studied performing style."
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Helge Lindberg
Jussi Björling Collection, Volume 6: The 'Erik Odde' Recordings and Other Popular Songs in Swedish (1931-1935)
Released 2006- När rosorna vissna och dö (When the roses wither and die)
- Det är något som binder mitt hjärta vid dig (Something is tying my heart to you)
- Bagdad (Baghdad)
- Varje litet ord av kärlek (Every little word of love)
- Aj, aj, aj du (Now, now, boy)
- Varför? (Why?)
- Någonstans på vår jord (Somewhere on our earth)
- Läppar som le så röda (Smiling red lips)
- Allting som är vackert (Everything beautiful reminds me of you)
- Kanske att vi på samma drömmar bär (Maybe we are dreaming the same dreams)
- Sommarens melodi är som poesi (Summer’s melody is like poetry)
- Dina blåa ögon lovar mer än dina röda läppar ger (Your blue eyes promise more than your red lips give)
- Kärlekens sång (Song of love)
- Säg mig god natt (Say good night to me)
- Slut dina ögon (Close your eyes)
- Bachanal (Bacchanale)
- Brinnande gula flod (Flaming golden stream)
- Tangoflickan (The tango girl)
- Säg, att du evigt håller mig kär (Say that you will love me for ever)
- Var det en dröm? (Was it a dream)
- Bröllopsvalsen (The wedding waltz)
- Lilla prinsessa (Little Princess)
Born: 1898-08-03
Died: 1973-02-27
