Ida Georgina Moberg (13 February 1859 – 2 August 1947) was a Finnish composer and conductor. She was born in Helsinki, and took piano and singing lessons as a child. She studied theory and composition from 1883 to 1884 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Later, she studied counterpoint under

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and composition at the Helsinki Philharmonic Society's Orchestra School under

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. She studied composition from 1901 to 1905 under Felix Draeseke at

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, and studied the Dalcroze method of improvisation in Berlin from 1911 to 1912. After her education, Moberg worked as a composer, conductor, and teacher at the Helsinki Music Institute from 1914 to 1916.

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