Anna Lang, née Nordqvist (
Stockholm, 5 July 1874 – 12 December 1920) was a Swedish court
harpist.
Life and work
Lang was the daughter of the conductor of the
Kungliga Hovkapellet
Kungliga Hovkapellet (, "The Royal Court Orchestra") is a Swedish orchestra, originally part of the Royal Court in Sweden's capital Stockholm. Its existence was first recorded in 1526. Since 1773 it is part of the Royal Swedish Opera's company.
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, Conrad Nordqvist.
She received the von Beskow scholarship in 1883, became a student at
Royal College of Music, 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 ...
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 (1897–1990), was also a harpist in Hovkapellet, the Swedish royal chapel orchestra until 1962.
Anna Lang died on 12 December 1920 in
Lidingö
Lidingö, also known in its definite form ''Lidingön'' and as ''Lidingölandet'', is an island in the inner Stockholm archipelago, northeast of Stockholm, Sweden. In 2010, the population of the Lidingö urban area on the island was 31,561. It ...
. She and her husband are buried in
Lidingö cemetery
Lidingö Cemetery ( sv, Lidingö kyrkogård) is a cemetery located adjacent to Lidingö Church in Stockholm County, Sweden. It is centrally located on the island of Lidingö at an elevation adjacent to Kyrkviken's southern shore. South-west o ...
.
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 las ...
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Marie Pauline Åhman
Marie may refer to:
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* Marie (given name)
* Marie (Japanese given name)
* Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973
* Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in T ...
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
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