Joel Mossberg

Joel Mossberg

Click on the above name "Joel Mossberg" for other related pages.  Joel Mossberg was a Swedish-American singer, educator and choir director. Between 1906 and 1919 he released over seventy songs on the Columbia, Edison and Victor labels. Many were from the Swedish choral tradition: folk songs, student songs, hymns and patriotic anthems. Literary stalwarts Carl Michael Bellman, J. L. Runeberg and Gunnar Wennerberg contributed to his repertoire. He nonetheless also recorded several comic songs written by the entertainer Lars Bondeson. In 1916 Mossberg released two numbers that Columbia Records described as "Swedish Socialist Songs". The first one, "Arbetets Söner" (Sons Of The Workers), was a Swedish labor song from 1885 with lyrics by Henrik Menander. The second one, "Marseljäsen" (La Marseillaise), was a Swedish version of the French national anthem. ARTICLES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Mossberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bondeson DISCOGRAPHY https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/100973/Mossberg_Joel PLAYLIST — See JPEG and PDF files for additional information — Tracks 01-35: Joel Mossberg  Tracks 36-39: Oscar Bergström and Joel Mossberg Tracks 40-42: Hugo Hulten and Joel Mossberg  Tracks 43-45: Hugo Hulten Tracks 46-59: from the repertoire of Joel Mossberg Tracks 60-61: bonus tracks TRACKS 34-40 Selections from Gunnar Wennerberg's "Gluntarne" song cycle GLUNTARNE - SWEDISH LYRICS https://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Gluntarne GLUNTARNE - ENGLISH LYRICS http://www.gluntarna.se/Engelska-oversattningar.html MEDLEYS Track 31: Vi Ska' Ställa Te En Roliger Dans / Tänker Du Att Jag Förlorader Är / Aspåkers Polska Track 33: Vårvindar Friska / Och Flickan Hon Går I Dansen ALTERNATE TITLES Amerika (America) Den Stjärnströdda Fanan (The Star-Spangled Banner) LARS BONDESON SONGS RECORDED BY MOSSBERG https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/basic/index?term=Bondesson&yt0=Search JPEG FILE 17 — Four "Gluntarne" songs performed by Oscar Bergström, Hugo Hulten and Joel Mossberg — Mossberg and Bergström sing Swedish folksongs: "This combination of well-known Swedish baritone and bass is perfectly suited to reproducing the rich, swelling melodies of these typical Swedish songs." Two humorous songs by Mossberg and Hulten: "The Professor is intoxicated but that doesn’t hold back his strong voice or the stream of witticisms. These selections are just as lovely vocally as they are funny." — Svea 09-18-18 JPEG FILES 18-19 Hugo Hulten (1877-1950) was for many years a leading figure in Swedish choral life in New York City. Hulten, who was a cabinet maker by profession, recorded about 20 songs for Columbia Records during the years 1914-1918 — including four duets from "Gluntarne" with Joel Mossberg. In 1921 he was a featured soloist when the Swedish Glee Club of Brooklyn toured Sweden. VESTKUSTEN 10-28-43 — The Great Singer Joel Mossberg Has Died — Joel Mossberg, choir director and baritone, whose activities as a singer are so closely linked with the history of Swedish American choirs over the past fifty years, has died in his hometown of Chicago at the age of seventy-three. He died on the evening of October 15th. Only five days earlier he had led a group of singers at a party in honor of a fellow choir member. Mossberg, well known even in California through his tours here, was born January 30, 1870 in Kumla, Narke. He came to Chicago at the age of twenty-two and continued the musical studies he had begun in Sweden with a private instructor and at the Chicago Musical College. "The tall young man," writes Svenska Amerikanska Tribunen, "with the beautiful baritone was hired first as a church singer but soon joined the Swedish Glee Club." His reputation grew within the American Union of Swedish Singers, and he became a highly regarded and important soloist at choral events. He was honored by his election as the conductor of both the A. U. S. S. and its Midwestern division. He was a dominant personality whether he stood in front of a massed choir of several hundred men with a baton in hand or appeared as a soloist in a featured number. Over the years he led many choirs, including Orpheus, Iduna, Harmony, Nordstjernan and Svithiod. He made tours to various parts of  America and led Swedish-American choirs from Chicago during their travels in Sweden. His reputation as a conductor was said to have been as great among Norwegians and Danes as among his own countrymen. In later years Mossberg only occasionally appeared as a leader, but he took an active part in the festivities of the singers, and his voice remained pure and clear. "As a soloist", writes Svenska Amerikanska Tribunen, "he had but a single rival in the history of Swedish American singers, and that was Gustaf Holmquist." 1912 NEWSPAPER PHOTO "Scandinavia" - March 13, 1912 1917 BOOK PHOTO  " The Swedish element in Illinois" by  Ernst W. Olson 1936 BOOK ILLUSTRATION "Nerkingar som borgare och äventyrare i främmande land" av Otto Robert Landelius