Anna Lang, née Nordqvist (
Stockholm
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, 5 July 1874 – 12 December 1920) was a Swedish court
harp
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ist.
Life and work
Lang was the daughter of the conductor of the
Kungliga Hovkapellet
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K ...
, Conrad Nordqvist.
She received the von Beskow scholarship in 1883, became a student at
Royal College of Music, Stockholm
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1887, and was a harpist at Hovkapellet from 1890 until her death in 1920.
She married her teacher, the harp composer Josef Lang in 1895; their daughter,
Ingrid Lang-Fagerström
Ingrid Lang-Fagerström (1897–1990) was a Swedish harpist at the royal chapel in Stockholm.
Life and work
Ingrid was born 6 March 1897 in Stockholm to the classical harpists Anna Lang and Josef Lang who were both employed with Kungliga Hovka ...
(1897–1990), was also a harpist in Hovkapellet, the Swedish royal chapel orchestra until 1962.
Anna Lang died on 12 December 1920 in
Lidingö
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. She and her husband are buried in
Lidingö cemetery
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.
See also
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Charlotta Seuerling
Charlotta Antonia "Charlotte Antoinette" Seuerling (1782/1784 – 25 September 1828), was a blind Swedish concert singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet, known as "The Blind Song-Maiden". She was active in Sweden, Finland and Russia. Her la ...
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Marie Pauline Åhman
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Sources
*Anna Lang, född Nordqvist i Adolf Lindgren och Nils Personne, Svenskt porträttgalleri (1897), volym XXI. Tonkonstnärer och sceniska artister
*Profil på Hovkapellets webbplats.
References
Swedish harpists
1874 births
1920 deaths
Swedish women artists
19th-century Swedish musicians
19th-century Swedish women musicians
Musicians from Stockholm
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