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

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23 December 2013) was a Swedish composer, organist and music teacher.''

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'' biographical article on Edlund Edlund was born in

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. He studied music at the

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, with Ina Lohr. He was inspired by Gregorian music, and converted to

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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

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'' 23 December 2013 From 1971 onwards he worked solely as a composer. The majority of his compositions were

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, many of them with texts on religious or

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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

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. He also set poems by

Gunnar Ekelöf Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf (15 September 1907 – 16 March 1968) was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958. He won a number of prize ...

and

Tomas Tranströmer Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long winters in Sweden, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer' ...

to music. He was elected a member of the

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in 1975. Lars Edlund lived in

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from the 1980s until his death.Tonsättaren Lars Edlund död
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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