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Elfrida Andrée (19 February 1841 – 11 January 1929), was a
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, composer, and conductor. A 1996 recording on the Caprice label features Andrée's piano quintet, along with a piano sonata, the string quartet in D minor, and vocal music. She was a sister of Swedish opera singer-soprano Fredrika Stenhammar.


Life and career

Andrée was born in
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to the doctor Andreas Andrée. She was the pupil of Ludvig Norman and Niels Wilhelm Gade. Her sister was the singer Fredrika Stenhammar. An activist in the Swedish
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, she was one of the first female organists to be officially appointed in
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. She began work in Stockholm in 1861 and became the organist at Gothenburg Cathedral in 1867. In 1897 she was named leader of the Gothenburg Workers Institute Concerts, establishing her reputation as the first Swedish woman to conduct a symphony orchestra. For her services, she was elected to the
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. She died in Gothenburg. Andrée's two organ symphonies are still being played today. Her other compositions include the
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''Fritiofs saga'' (1899, libretto by
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), several works for
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including two symphonies, a
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in A minor (1870) and a
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in E minor (published in 1865), a
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in G minor (1887) (and another published posthumously in C minor), a string quartet in D minor from 1861 and another in A major, pieces for
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(including sonatas in E flat and B flat major) and for
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, two Swedish masses, an 1879 choral ballade "Snöfrid", and '' lieder.''


References


External links

*
Elfrida Andree Piano Quintet in e minor, sound-bites
*
Swedish Musical Heritage - Elfrida AndréeSongs by Elfrieda Andrée on The Art Song Project


Further reading

*Eva Öhrström, ''Elfrida Andrée : ett levnadsöde'' Stockholm: Prisma, 1999. . * *Elfrida Andree by
Elsa Stuart-Bergstrom Elsa Marianne Stuart-Bergstrom (26 April 1889 – 19 May 1970) was a Swedish author, composer,( and music critic who wrote several biographies, composed about 60 songs as well as orchestral works, and sometimes published under the pseudonyms Kaime ...
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