Pär Lindgren (born 16 January 1952 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish composer and composition teacher, cited as one of Sweden's leading composers of electroacoustic music, and one of the most important Swedish composers of orchestral music of his generation along with Jan Sandstrom,

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, and Anders Nilsson. Lindgren studied composition at the

Royal College of Music in Stockholm The Royal College of Music, Stockholm ( sv, Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm) is the oldest institution of higher education in music in Sweden, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The institution was mad ...

(KMH) in the 1970s. Since 1980, he has taught at KMH and was professor of composition there from 1998 until 2008. Since then, he has returned to being a lecturer.

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and Marie Samuelsson were students of Lindgren. Lindgren won the Christ Johnson Prize in 1987 and 1996.

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{{Sweden-composer-stub Swedish composers Swedish male composers International Rostrum of Composers prize-winners 1952 births Living people People from Gothenburg