Dag wiren biography

Dag Ivar Wirén (15 October 1905 – 19 April 1986) was a Swedish composer.

Dag Wirén is not widely known outside his native Sweden, though his music began gaining notice internationally on recordings in the decade following his death.

His first serious compositions date to the 1930s and divulge a neo-Classicism tinged by a Romantic warmth. By the middle of the following decade, his style had settled into a kind of early form of minimalism, but with themes, usually short, motto-like creations divulging a more complex and subtle form of evolution, relying on little repetition and thus achieving an entirely different kind of effect from that of the minimalists.

While in the end, he must still be assessed as a secondary figure, he may yet generate a re-evaluation and reach front-rank, or nearly front-rank, status.

Dag Wirén showed musical talent at an early age, but did not enroll at the Swedish Royal Academy of Music in Stockhol