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 early musical tuition was given in his home province of Vastmanland but at 14 he moved to Sweden and then to Paris where his heard the works of Stravinsky, Honegger and Prokofiev, eventually meeting the composers and coming under their influence. 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 ki