Sverre Cornelius Lund
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Sverre Cornelius Lund (December 9, 1931 – October 21, 2012) was a Norwegian accordionist known from his radio broadcasts and album releases. In the 1960s, Lund released several albums, including collaborations with Frank Cook and Arnstein Johansen. Later he played with the
Norwegian Radio Orchestra The Norwegian Radio Orchestra (Norwegian, ''Kringkastingsorkestret'', abbreviated as KORK) is a radio orchestra affiliated with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (''Norsk rikskringkasting AS'', or NRK). Its principal base is the ''Store Studi ...
and the Stavanger Ensemble. He was one of the founders of the Norwegian Accordionists' Association and thirty other local clubs, including in
Narvik () is the third-largest List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway, by population. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Narvik (town), town of Narvik. Some of the notable villag ...
, where he occasionally resided. In Oslo he ran the company S. C. L. Music for several decades. He created the designs for the Cornelli Gold and Excelsior Tosca accordions. Lund was the father of the singer Geir Cornelius Lund (1963–2008) and the
mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano (, ), or mezzo ( ), is a type of classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A bel ...
Elisabeth Cornelius Lund. He lived in
Costa del Sol The Costa del Sol (; literally "Coast of the Sun") is a region in the south of Spain in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, comprising the coastal towns and communities along the coastline of the Province of ...
. Lund died on October 21, 2012, and was buried at Håkvik Chapel in Narvik on November 6 the same year.


Awards and recognitions

*Honorary member of the Norwegian Accordionists' Association *Vågå Award (''Vågåfatet''), 1996, shared with Arnstein Johansen


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lund, Sverre Cornelius Norwegian accordionists 1931 births 2012 deaths