Elsa Marianne Stuart-Bergstrom (26 April 1889 – 19 May 1970) was a Swedish author, composer,( and music critic who wrote several biographies, composed about 60 songs as well as orchestral works, and sometimes published under the pseudonyms Kaimen or E.M.S. Stuart-Bergstrom was born in Stockholm to Hanna Mariana Hjerpe and Johan Magnus Stuart. Hanna was a housekeeper and seamstress for Stuart; they married in 1906. Stuart-Bergstrom lived with her aunt, Tekla Rydbergi Soderkoping, for much of her childhood. She graduated from the

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in Stockholm, then studied art and literary history at

Stockholm University Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, s ...

. She studied music at the

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with Lennart Lundberg and Kerstin Stroemberg, and with Felix Saul, a local cantor. In 1932, Stuart-Bergstrom married Richard Bergstrom, a Swedish Customs clerk, and they moved to Skara, where she lived the rest of her life. She lectured on the radio and worked as a music critic for Stockholm newspapers as well as for the Musical Times (London), sometimes using the pseudonym Kaimen or E.M.S. Stuart-Bergstrom was a member of the Stockholm Foreign Press Association. Stuart-Bergstrom's papers are archived at the Swedish Music and Theater Library (Musikverket). Her composition manuscripts are stored at the Diocesan and National Libraries of Skara, Her publications include:

Books

* Elfria Andrée *

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* Anton Bruckner

Music

*about 60 songs *“Song in folk tone” (voice and piano; text by Bengt E. Nyström) *“Spelare-Jan” (voice and piano; text by Bengt E. Bystrom)

References

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