{"id":1331,"date":"2025-02-20T16:53:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:49:21","slug":"fjolnir-stefansson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/fjolnir-stefansson\/","title":{"rendered":"Fj\u00f6lnir Stef\u00e1nsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1247\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fjolnir_3-london53-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fjolnir_3-london53-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fjolnir_3-london53-1024x626.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fjolnir_3-london53-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fjolnir_3-london53-1536x939.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fjolnir_3-london53-2048x1253.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fj\u00f6lnir Stef\u00e1nsson (1930\u20132011) began his music studies as a cellist at the Reykjav\u00edk School of Music. Later he majored in theory and compostion, studying with J\u00f3n \u00de\u00f3rarinsson and graduating in 1954. He continued his studies in London with Matyas Seiber from 1954 to 1958. Several of his key works, including <em>Three Songs from Time and the Water<\/em>, <em>Five Sketches for Piano<\/em>, and <em>Three Songs from the Graduale<\/em> for choir, date from his studies with Seiber in London. After finishing his studies he returned to Iceland, teaching at the Reykjav\u00edk School of Music and becoming Principal of the K\u00f3pavogur School of Music (1968\u20132000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fj\u00f6lnir Stef\u00e1nsson (1930\u20132011) began his music studies as a cellist at the Reykjav\u00edk School of Music. Later he majored in theory and compostion, studying with J\u00f3n \u00de\u00f3rarinsson and graduating in 1954. He continued his studies in London with Matyas Seiber from 1954 to 1958. Several of his key works, including Three Songs from Time and the Water, Five Sketches for Piano, and Three Songs from the Graduale for choir, date from his studies with Seiber in London. After finishing his studies he returned to Iceland, teaching at the Reykjav\u00edk School of Music and becoming Principal of the K\u00f3pavogur School of Music (1968\u20132000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}