DESCRIPTION:
Per-Olof Johnson plays his variations on Carl Michael Bellman's songs.

Per-Olof Johnson
(1928-2000)
Per-Olof Johnson began playing the guitar at the age of fourteen but only became seriously interested in the instrument after completing his military service. After studying with David Berg and Sven Hammarberg-Kritschevsky in Stockholm, he went to Vienna in 1955 to study with Karl Scheit for two years. He continued his studies for several more years, completing them in 1960-61 at the Schola Cantorun Basiliensis in Basle, Switzerland. In 1962 he came second in the Concours International de la Guitare in Paris.
Per-Olof Johnson returned to Sweden and held a variety of positions in Malmø and Arvika as a guitar teacher. In 1966 he received an offer to work in Copenhagen, and two years later he was given The lectureship in classical guitar at the Royal Danish Concervatory. As Johnson still retained a part time position at the Malmø State Collage of Music, there began a sixteen-years period of commuting between Sweden and Danmark.
In 1980 Per-Olof Johnson was knighted as "Ridder af Danneborg" by Queen Margarethe of Denmark. In July 1982 the Swedish authorities created a personal professorship for him at the University of Lund/Malmø State Collage of Music, the first of its kind in Sweden.
For many years he performed widly throughout Europ and Scandinavia. At the same time he had established himself as Sweden's foremost classical guitar teacher and it is for this he is most widly known Gøran Søllscher is one of his many pupils.In 1989 he was invited to Yale Universaty School of Music as a research affiliate in notation, performance technique and transcriptions for lute and vihuela.
His works:
Gitarrskola del 1. Anderssons Musik - Malmö. Nybörjarskola för klassisk gitarr. Utgiven 1966. Lärarhandledning till gitarrskola del 1. Anderssons Musik -- Malmö Gitarrskola del 2, Utgiven 1969. Anderssons Musik - Malmö. J S Bach: Sarabande - Gavotte 1 - Gavotte 2. Anderssons Musik - Malmö. Dessa tre vackra danssatser, original för cello, pietetsfullt förvandlade till väl klingande gitarrstycken. Bellmaniana. Anderssons Musik -- Malmö Bulman: Pavan. Anderssons Musik - Malmö. Hilding Hallnäs: Partita amabile per chitarra. Anderssons Musik -- Malmö Hilding Hallnäs: Preludier 1-12. 1967. Anderssons Musik -- Malmö Hilding hallnäs: Strängaspel. 8 stycken för sologitarr. 1975. Anderssons Musik -- Malmö Per-Olof Johnson: 30 folkvisor i arrangemang för gitarr. 1964. Anderssons Musik -- Malmö René Mezangeau: Svit i a-moll 1638. Utgiven 1990. Anderssons Musik - Malmö. Luys Milan: 6 pavaner ur el Maestro 1535/6. Anderssons Musik -- Malmö W A Mozart: 8 stycken för sologitarr. Anderssons Musik -- Malmö Johan Helmich Roman: Assaggio 1740? Anderssons Musik - Malmö. Original för soloviolin. Transkription för gitarr 1977 av Per-Olof. 4 satser: A tempo giusto - Allegro - Andante - Bourré. Värmlandiana. Anderssons Musik - Malmö. Svit byggd på melodier ur Värmläningarna av F A Dahlgren/A Randel. Arrangerad och varierad av Per-Olof. Per-Olof Johnson: Det gyllene seklet, vihuelamusik i 1500-talets Spanien. Lunds Universitet - Musikhögskolan Malmö. Innehåller förutom uppförandepraxis gällande vihuelamusik som till exempel notation, taktus, tempo, proportion med mera, 26 transkriptioner av stycken av Milán, Valdebarrano, Mudarra, Narvaez, Fuenllana, Pisador och Milano (138 sidor
Recordings:
Per-Olof Johnson---EMI SCLP 1037:
MILÁN; FANTASIA DE CONSONANCIAS Y REDOBLES
MILÁN; PAVANAS V-VI
BULMAN; A PAVAN
DE VISÉE; SUITE D-MOLL
BACH; SARABANDE-GAVOTTE I-II
TÁRREGA; RECUERDOS DE LA ALHAMBRA
TÁRREGA; LÁGRIMA
SOR; ANDANTINO
UHL; TANZ
VILLA-LOBOS; PRELUDE NR 4
ALBENIZ, ASTURIAS-LEYENDA

Per-Olof Johnson---EMI LP 34395:
Luis Milan; FANTASIA NR 12
John Dowland; Master Piper's Pavan och Master Piper's Galliard
NARVÁEZ; O GUARDAME LAS VACAS
MUDARRA; GALLARDA
MÉZANGEAU; SVIT I A-MOLL
TÁRREGA; CAPRICHO ARABE
SOR; ANDANTE MAESTOSO OP 11:6
VILLA-LOBOS; ETYD NR 11
HALLNÄS; PARTITA AMABILE PER CHITARRA

Swedish Guitar Music---Caprice CAP 1236:
PER-OLOF JOHNSON; BELLMANIANA
ROMAN; ASAGIO (Transkription för altgitarr av Per-Olof Johnson)
HALLNÄS; STRÄNGASPEL