Lars Edlund (6 November 1922 – 21 December 2013Tonsättaren Lars Edlund har avlidit

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23 December 2013) was a

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composer, organist and music teacher.'' Nationalencyklopedin'' biographical article on Edlund Edlund was born in

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, Värmland County. He studied music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel,

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, with Ina Lohr. He was inspired by Gregorian music, and converted to Catholicism 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 Royal College of Music in

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'' 23 December 2013 From 1971 onwards he worked solely as a composer. The majority of his compositions were vocal music, many of them with texts on religious or existentialist 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 Church of Sweden. He also set poems by Gunnar Ekelöf and Tomas Tranströmer to music. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1975. Lars Edlund lived in Uppsala from the 1980s until his death.Tonsättaren Lars Edlund död
'' Upsala Nya Tidning'' 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