Lars Edlund, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lars Edlund

Swedish organist and composer

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1922

Place of Birth: Karlstad, Värmland County, Sweden

Date of Death: 21-Dec-2013

Profession: composer, church musician, organist, music pedagogue

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Lars Edlund

  • Lars Edlund (6 November 1922 – 21 December 2013) was a Swedish composer, organist and music teacher.Edlund was born in Karlstad, Värmland County.
  • He studied music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, with Ina Lohr.
  • He was inspired by Gregorian music, and converted to Catholicism later in life.Edlund started working as a church musician in the early 1940s, and was also a teacher at the Swedish Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
  • From 1971 onwards he worked solely as a composer.
  • The majority of his compositions were vocal music, many of them with texts on religious or existentialist themes.
  • Several of his compositions can be found in the 1986 hymnal for the Church of Sweden.
  • He also set poems by Gunnar Ekelöf and Tomas Tranströmer to music.He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1975.Lars Edlund lived in Uppsala from the 1980s until his death.

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