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Litteris Et Artibus
Litteris et Artibus is a Swedish royal medal established in 1853 by Charles XV of Sweden, who was then crown prince. It is awarded to people who have made important contributions to culture, especially music, dramatic art and literature. The obverse side of the medal has the image of the current King while the reverse has the text ''"Litteris et artibus"'' (Latin: Letters and Arts). Recipients * 1857 – Karolina Bock * 1865 – Elise Hwasser * 1869 – Louise Michaëli * 1871 – Henriette Nissen-Saloman * 1874 – Béla Kéler * 1885 – Bertha Tammelin * 1886 – Ellen Hartman * 1890 – Dina Edling * 1891 – Thecla Åhlander, Agi Lindegren, Carolina Östberg * 1895 – Mathilda Grabow * 1896 – Agnes Branting * 1899 – John Forsell * 1900 – Adelina Patti * 1906 – Martina Bergman-Österberg * 1907 – Armas Järnefelt * 1914 – Alice Tegnér * 1914 – Anna Bergström-Simonsson * 1915 – Anna Oscàr * 1916 – Hugo Alfvén, Harriet Bosse, Carl Boberg * 1920 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnes Branting
Agnes Margareta Matilda Branting (1862–1930) was a Swedish textile artist and writer. As director of the Friends of Handicraft association from 1891, she undertook developments in large woven tapestries with several prominent artists which led to Sweden's freestyle woven visual art. In 1904, she established the Licium workshop which produced religious and heraldic fabrics including flags and banners. She was also active in the preservation of textiles, establishing the Pietas society for this purpose. As a writer, she contributed articles on arts and crafts to ''Svenska Dagbladet'' and published books on textiles. Biography Born on 27 February 1862 in Åtorp, Värmland, Agnes Margareta Matilda Branting was the daughter of the pharmacist Carl Johan Branting and his wife Maria Carolina née Lundh. After her father died when she was seven, the family moved to Skara where she attended the girls' school. In 1880, she studied textile art and drawing at the Technical College in Stockho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotten Dahlgren
Eva Charlotta Carolina Dahlgren (23 April 1851 – 14 January 1934) was a Swedish writer, journalist, newspaper editor, feminist, and suffragist. From 1891 to 1907, she served as the editor of the periodical ''Dagny'', a leading mouthpiece of the Swedish women's movement. She was also a member of Fredrika Bremer Association, the oldest women's rights organisation in the country. She was awarded the Swedish royal medal Litteris et Artibus for her contributions to literature and history. Early life Lotten Dahlgren was born on 23 April 1851 in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father, Fredrik August Dahlgren, was a public servant and had a successful career as an author. Among his works was ''Värmlänningarne'', a comedy that was first performed in 1846. In the 1870s, he became known for his poetry in Swedish dialect, and in 1971, he was inducted into the Swedish Academy. Dahlgren's mother Ulrica "Ulla" von Heland was the niece of writer, historian, and poet Erik Gustaf Geijer. Born into an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Kempff
Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (25 November 1895 – 23 May 1991) was a German pianist and composer. Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, recording the complete sonatas of both composers. He is considered to have been one of the chief exponents of the Germanic tradition during the 20th century and one of the greatest pianists of all time. Early life Kempff was born in Jüterbog, Brandenburg, in 1895. He grew up in nearby Potsdam where his father was a royal music director and organist at St. Nicolai Church. His grandfather was also an organist and his brother Georg became director of church music at the University of Erlangen. Kempff studied music at first at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik at the age of nine after receiving lessons from his father at a younger age. Whilst there he studied composition with Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanny Larsén-Todsen
Nanny Larsén-Todsen (2 August 1884 – 26 May 1982) was a Swedish soprano, renowned for her performances in works by Richard Wagner and counted as one of the most notable Wagnerian sopranos of the 20th-century, from the generation before Frida Leider and Kirsten Flagstad. She was particularly popular at the Bayreuth Festival as Brunnhilde and Isolde. Active at the Royal Swedish Opera 1906–25, at La Scala 1923–24, the Metropolitan Opera 1925–27, and Bayreuth in 1927–31, she also made guest appearances at most of the major European opera houses."Nanny Larsén-Todsen", ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'', 5th edition edited Nicolas Slonimsky (1958) Her last appearance was at the Paris Opera in 1937, as Isolde. She received Litteris et Artibus in 1920, was elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1924, and made Hovsångerska in 1925. Living in Stockholm following her retirement from the stage, Larsén-Todsen taught singing. Recordings *1928: Wagner, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Boberg
Carl Gustav Boberg (16 August 1859 – 7 January 1940, aged 80) was a Swedish poet and elected official, best known for writing the Swedish language poem "O Store Gud" (O Great God) from which the English language hymn "How Great Thou Art" is derived. Biographical details Born in Mönsterås, Kalmar County in Småland, Boberg was a carpenter's son, worked briefly as a sailor, and served as a lay minister in the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden. He was the editor of a weekly Christian newspaper, ''Sanningsvittnet'' (Witness of the Truth), from 1890 until 1916. Boberg served in the Riksdag for 20 years from 1912 to 1931. He published more than 60 poems, hymns, and gospel songs, including a collaboration with Swedish hymnist Lina Sandell Lina Sandell (full name: Karolina Wilhelmina Sandell-Berg) (3 October 1832 – 27 July 1903) was a Swedish poet and author of gospel hymns. Background The daughter of a Lutheran minister, Sandell grew up in the rectory at Fröderyd parish in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Bosse
Harriet Sofie Bosse (19 February 1878 – 2 November 1961) was a Swedish–Norwegian actress. A celebrity in her day, Bosse is now most commonly remembered as the third wife of the playwright August Strindberg. Bosse began her career in a minor company run by her forceful older sister Alma Fahlstrøm in Kristiania (now Oslo, the capital of Norway). Having secured an engagement at the Royal Dramatic Theatre ("Dramaten"), the main drama venue of Sweden's capital Stockholm, Bosse caught the attention of Strindberg with her intelligent acting and exotic "oriental" appearance. After a whirlwind courtship, which unfolds in detail in Strindberg's letters and diary, Strindberg and Bosse were married in 1901, when he was 52 and she 23. Strindberg wrote a number of major roles for Bosse during their short and stormy relationship, especially in 1900–01, a period of great creativity and productivity for him. Like his previous two marriages, the relationship failed as a result of Stri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Alfvén
Hugo Emil Alfvén (; 1 May 18728 May 1960) was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter. Career Violinist Alfvén was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and studied at the Royal College of Music (Kungliga Musikhögskolan) from 1887 to 1891 with the violin as his main instrument while receiving lessons from Lars Zetterquist. He also took private composition lessons from Johan Lindegren, a leading counterpoint expert. At the same time he played the violin at the Royal Opera in Stockholm 1890-1892. Conductor Starting in 1897, Alfvén travelled much of the next ten years in Europe. He studied violin technique in Brussels with César Thomson and learned conducting in Dresden with Hermann Ludwig Kutzschbach. In 1903-4 he was formally professor of composition at the Royal Conservatory, Stockholm. From 1910 Alfvén was ''Director musices'' (music director) at the University of Uppsala (a post he held until 1939). There he also directed the male voice choir Orphei Drä ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Oscàr
Anna Dorothea Oscàr (1875–1915) was a Swedish opera singer. Considered to be Sweden's leading soprano of the period, she made her debut using her maiden name, Anna Thulin, at the Royal Swedish Opera as Papagena in Mozart's ''The Magic Flute'' when she was 16. Engaged by the company in 1896, she remained there for the rest of her life singing some 60 different roles in the major German, Italian, French and Swedish operas. Apart from three successful summer tours to the United States in the 1900s, she was otherwise based in Sweden. Married twice, she performed under the name Anna Hellström during her first marriage from 1900 through 1905, and after her second marriage in 1907 to the baritone Martin Oscàr, as Anna Oscàr. In 1908 she was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Biography Born in Stockholm on 29 April 1875, Anna Dorothea Thulin was the daughter of the tailor Sven Tufvesson Thulin and his wife Catharina Carolina Andersdotter Sahlin. After attending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Bergström-Simonsson
Anna Katarina Bergström-Simonsson (30 December 1853 – 30 January 1937) was a Swedish voice teacher who first taught in Swedish girls' schools and later at the Royal Seminary for Women in Stockholm. From 1903 to 1920, she was engaged by the Royal Conservatory, becoming a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1912. In 1914, she was awarded the Litteris et Artibus for her services to Swedish culture. Biography Born on 30 December 1853 in Färnebo near Filipstad, Värmland, Anna Katarina Bergström was the daughter of the miner Olof Larsson Bergström and his wife Brita Cajsa née Nilsson. She was one of the family's 11 children. From 1873 to 1876 she studied at the Royal Conservatory in Stockholm, graduating as an organist. From 1876 to 1880, she was a singing teacher in Filipstad, after which she taught in several other girls' schools in Stockholm, including the . From 1897, she taught voice at the Royal Seminary for Women and from 1903 to 1920, she headed the test ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Tegnér
Alice Charlotta Tegnér (; 12 March 1864 – 26 May 1943; Sandström) was a Swedish music teacher, poet and composer. She is the foremost composer of Swedish children's songs during the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Background Born Alice Charlotta Sandström in Karlshamn, Sweden, she was the daughter of Eduard Sandström (1829–1879), a ship captain. She was very musical and began taking piano lessons early. She attended seminars in Stockholm (''Högre lärarinneseminariet'') and trained as a teacher. After graduation, she served as governess. Alice Tegnér was a teacher at Djursholms samskola and cantor in Djursholms chapel where Natanael Beskow was a preacher. In 1885, she married Jakob Tegnér (1851–1926), a lawyer, and later secretary of the Swedish Publishers' Association and editor of ''Svenska Bokhandelstidningen''. Career Alice Tegnér wrote many well-known children's songs in Swedish, most notably ''Mors lilla Olle''. It was published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armas Järnefelt
Edvard Armas Järnefelt (14 August 1869 – 23 June 1958), was a Finland, Finnish conductor and composer, who achieved some minor success with his orchestral works ''Berceuse'' and ''Praeludium''. He spent much of his conducting career at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, Sweden. Life Armas Järnefelt was born in Vyborg, in the Grand Duchy of Finland, the son of General August Aleksander Järnefelt and Elisabeth Järnefelt (née Clodt von Jürgensburg). Järnefelt studied with Ferruccio Busoni in Helsinki and with Jules Massenet in Paris. Both Järnefelt and Busoni enjoyed a close relationship with Jean Sibelius, who was married to Järnefelt's sister Aino Sibelius, Aino. From 1905 Järnefelt had a long career as conductor at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, beginning as repetiteur from 1905 to 1911 (he became a Swedish citizen in 1909); conductor 1911-1923 and chief conductor 1923–1933. Between 1932 and 1936 Järnefelt was the artistic director and conductor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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