Anna Lang, née Nordqvist (

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, 5 July 1874 – 12 December 1920) was a Swedish court

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...

ist.

Life and work

Lang was the daughter of the conductor of the Kungliga Hovkapellet, Conrad Nordqvist. She received the von Beskow scholarship in 1883, became a student at

Royal College of Music, Stockholm The Royal College of Music, Stockholm ( sv, Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm) is the oldest institution of higher education in music in Sweden, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The institution was mad ...

1887, and was a harpist at Hovkapellet from 1890 until her death in 1920. She married her teacher, the harp composer Josef Lang in 1895; their daughter,

Ingrid Lang-Fagerström Ingrid Lang-Fagerström (1897–1990) was a Swedish harpist at the royal chapel in Stockholm. Life and work Ingrid was born 6 March 1897 in Stockholm to the classical harpists Anna Lang and Josef Lang who were both employed with Kungliga Hovka ...

(1897–1990), was also a harpist in Hovkapellet, the Swedish royal chapel orchestra until 1962. Anna Lang died on 12 December 1920 in

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. She and her husband are buried in

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*Anna Lang, född Nordqvist i Adolf Lindgren och Nils Personne, Svenskt porträttgalleri (1897), volym XXI. Tonkonstnärer och sceniska artister *Profil på Hovkapellets webbplats.

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Swedish harpists 1874 births 1920 deaths Swedish women artists 19th-century Swedish musicians 19th-century Swedish women musicians {{Sweden-musician-stub

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