Jacob Adolf Hägg (29 June 1850,

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– 1 March 1928, Bjuråker) was a

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composer. Hägg studied

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at the Stockholm Conservatory from 1865 to 1870, as well as

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with Niels Wilhelm Gade and in

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with

Friedrich Kiel Friedrich Kiel (8 October 182113 September 1885) was a German composer and music teacher. Writing of the chamber music of Friedrich Kiel, the scholar and critic Wilhelm Altmann notes that it was Kiel’s extreme modesty which kept him and his ex ...

. Due to mental illness, he spent the years 1880 to 1895 in a hospital. He then worked as a pianist and composer in Hedvigsfors, Sweden, and continued to do so after moving to

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between 1900 and 1909 and resettling in Sweden at

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. Hägg composed four symphonies and other

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l and choral works, chamber music, a collection of ''Little Nordic Songs without Words'' for piano, ten piano suites, and pieces for

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and for organ. His cousin Gustaf Hägg (1867–1925) was also a composer.

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