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Elfrida Andrée (19 February 1841 – 11 January 1929), was a
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organist, composer, and
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. A 1996 recording on the Caprice label features Andrée's piano quintet, along with a piano sonata, the string quartet in D minor, and vocal music. She was a sister of Swedish opera singer-soprano Fredrika Stenhammar.


Life and career

Andrée was born in Visby to the doctor Andreas Andrée. She was the pupil of
Ludvig Norman Ludvig Norman (28 August 183128 March 1885) was a Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, and music teacher. Together with Franz Berwald and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, he ranks among the most important Swedish symphonists of the 19th century. Norma ...
and Niels Wilhelm Gade. Her sister was the singer
Fredrika Stenhammar Fredrika Stenhammar (née Andrée; 19 September 1836 in Visby – 7 October 1880) was a Swedish opera singer (soprano). She was born as Fredrika Andrée to doctor Andreas Andrée and was sister of Sweden's first female organist, Elfrida Andrée. ...
. An activist in the Swedish women's movement, she was one of the first female organists to be officially appointed in
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. She began work in Stockholm in 1861 and became the organist at Gothenburg Cathedral in 1867. In 1897 she was named leader of the Gothenburg Workers Institute Concerts, establishing her reputation as the first Swedish woman to conduct a symphony orchestra. For her services, she was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. She died in Gothenburg. Andrée's two organ symphonies are still being played today. Her other compositions include the
opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libre ...
''Fritiofs saga'' (1899, libretto by Selma Lagerlöf), several works for
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including two symphonies, a
piano quartet A piano quartet is a chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments, or a musical ensemble comprising such instruments. Those other instruments are usually a string trio consisting of a violin, viola and cello. Piano quartets for ...
in A minor (1870) and a piano quintet in E minor (published in 1865), a piano trio in G minor (1887) (and another published posthumously in C minor), a string quartet in D minor from 1861 and another in A major, pieces for
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(including sonatas in E flat and B flat major) and for
piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...
, two Swedish masses, an 1879 choral ballade "Snöfrid", and '' lieder.''


References


External links

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Elfrida Andree Piano Quintet in e minor, sound-bites
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Swedish Musical Heritage - Elfrida AndréeSongs by Elfrieda Andrée on The Art Song Project


Further reading

*Eva Öhrström, ''Elfrida Andrée : ett levnadsöde'' Stockholm: Prisma, 1999. . * *Elfrida Andree by Elsa Stuart-Bergstrom 1841 births 1929 deaths 19th-century classical composers 19th-century women composers 19th-century Swedish musicians 19th-century Swedish women musicians 19th-century Swedish people 20th-century classical composers 20th-century women composers 20th-century conductors (music) Cathedral organists Women classical composers Feminist musicians People from Gotland Pupils of Niels Gade Romantic composers Swedish classical composers Swedish classical organists Swedish conductors (music) Swedish women composers Swedish women classical composers Swedish feminists Women conductors (music) Women organists 20th-century Swedish women {{Sweden-musician-stub