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Lars Edlund (6 November 1922 – 21 December 2013 Tonsättaren Lars Edlund har avlidit, Sveriges radio 23 December 2013) was a Sweden composer, organist and music teacher. Nationalencyklopedin biographical article on Edlund
Edlund was born in Karlstad, Värmland County. He studied music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, with Ina Lohr. He was inspired by Gregorian chant music, and converted to Catholicism 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 Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Tonsättaren Lars Edlund död, Svenska Dagbladet 23 December 2013 From 1971 onwards he worked solely as a composer. The majority of his compositions were vocal music, many of them with texts on religious or existentialist 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 Church of Sweden. He also set poems by Gunnar Ekelöf and Tomas Tranströmer to music.
He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1975.
Lars Edlund lived in Uppsala from the 1980s until his death. Tonsättaren Lars Edlund död, Upsala Nya Tidning 23 December 2013, retrieved 24 December 2013
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