Lars Edlund (6 November 1922 – 21 December 2013Tonsättaren Lars Edlund har avlidit
Sveriges radio 23 December 2013) was a

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composer, organist and music teacher.''

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'' biographical article on Edlund Edlund was born in Karlstad,

Värmland County Värmland County (''Värmlands län'') is a county or '' län'' in west central Sweden. It borders the Swedish counties of Dalarna, Örebro and Västra Götaland, as well as the Norwegian counties of Viken and Innlandet to the west. Prince C ...

. He studied music at the

Schola Cantorum Basiliensis The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, that focuses on early music and historically informed performance. Faculty at the school have organized performing ensembles that have ...

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, Switzerland, with Ina Lohr. He was inspired by Gregorian music, and converted to

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later in life.Connor, Herbert. 1977. ''Svensk musik, del 2: Från Midsommarvaka till Aniara'', pp. 431-435 Edlund started working as a church musician in the early 1940s, and was also a teacher at the Swedish

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in Stockholm. Tonsättaren Lars Edlund död
'' Svenska Dagbladet'' 23 December 2013 From 1971 onwards he worked solely as a composer. The majority of his compositions were

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, many of them with texts on religious or

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themes, and he composed the atonal sight-singing workbook ''Modus Novus.''''Modus Novus,''
''Eesti Muusika-ja Teatriakadeemia'' Several of his compositions can be found in the 1986 hymnal for the

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. He also set poems by

Gunnar Ekelöf Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf (15 September 1907, in Stockholm – 16 March 1968, in Sigtuna) was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958 ...

and

Tomas Tranströmer Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's ...

to music. He was elected a member of the

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in 1975. Lars Edlund lived in

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from the 1980s until his death.Tonsättaren Lars Edlund död
''

Upsala Nya Tidning ''Upsala Nya Tidning'' or ''UNT'' (meaning ''Upsala New Newspaper'' in English) is a regional daily newspaper published in Uppsala (archaically spelled Upsala), Sweden. History and profile ''Upsala Nya Tidning'' was established in 1890. The dist ...

'' 23 December 2013, retrieved 24 December 2013

References

External links

Lars Edlund (biography and list of works) at Svensk Musik
Swedish composers Swedish male composers Swedish organists Male organists Swedish Roman Catholics Converts to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism People from Karlstad Academic staff of the Royal College of Music, Stockholm Schola Cantorum Basiliensis alumni Converts to Roman Catholicism 1922 births 2013 deaths {{Sweden-composer-stub