Lovisa Charlotta Borgman, later Biörck (1798, in Gothenburg – 1884), was a Swedish

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

ist. She was a member of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Music The Royal Swedish Academy of Music ( sv, Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien), founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. At the time of its foundation, only one of its co-founder was a professional musician, Ferdin ...

from 1853 (seat 388). Borgman and her elder sister was a student of Johan Fredrik Berwald. During the 1820s, she performed successfully with her sister (also a violinist) in concerts at tours in Gothenburg, Stockholm, Norway, Finland and in Saint Petersburg and Moscow in Russia. She ended her career after her marriage to the then mayor of Stockholm, Johan Anders Biörck.

References

* Leif Jonsson & Martin Tegen: ''Musiken i Sverige. Den nationella identiteten 1810–1920'' (1992) * Johan Leonard Höijer
Musik-Lexikon
(1864) {{DEFAULTSORT:Borgman, Lovisa Charlotta 1798 births 1884 deaths Swedish classical violinists Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music 19th-century classical violinists Women classical violinists 19th-century Swedish musicians 19th-century Swedish women musicians