page_title: Baldurs draumar
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Baldurs draumar / Background
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Geirr Tveit. Ukjent fotograf (ca. 1935–40). Fra Byhistorisk samling hos Oslo Museum.
context_page_description: Baldur's Dreams is a ballet by the Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt. It is loosely based on the poem Baldrs draumar from the Poetic Edda. It has never been staged as an actual ballet. The music was performed by a symphony orchestra in Oslo in 1938. The score was lost during World War II but reconstructed and rediscovered in the early 2000s.
context_section_description: Geirr Tveitt wrote Baldurs draumar when he was developing his own vision of a Nordic primitivism. He had come to support the neopagan group around Hans S. Jacobsen, which was ideologically National Socialist but against Adolf Hitler. Baldurs draumar is the work by Tveitt that most fully realizes the pagan ideas of this milieu. It was written for a large orchestra with twelve percussionists, some of which would perform on nine special made "Stone Age drums" tuned for the pentatonic scale.
caption: Geirr Tveitt in the 1930s
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