Oskar Lindberg (composer)

Oskar Lindberg ( born February 23, 1887 in Gagnef, † April 10, 1955 in Stockholm) was a Swedish composer.

Lindberg played from the age of fourteen, the organ in the church of his hometown. He studied from 1903 at the Conservatory of Stockholm, where he finished 1906, organist and music teacher 1908 exam. He also studied composition with Ernst Henrik Johan Andreas Hallén and Ellberg. In 1906 he became organist at the Trinity Church in Stockholm, from 1914 until his death he was the organist at the Engelbrektskyrkan held.

Since 1910, Lindberg worked as a music teacher. From 1919 he taught harmony at the Music Academy Stockholm, since 1936 as a professor. In 1922 he became conductor of the Stockholm Academic Orchestra Association. He was a member of the Choral Book Committee and since 1941 of the liturgical- musical Committee since 1939.

Lindberg composed over four hundred works, including an opera ( Fredlös, by Selma Lagerlof ), a symphony ( 1913-1916 ), three symphonic poems, three overtures, two suites, a piano quartet, an organ sonata, a Requiem and a cantata.

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  • Svensk Music - Biography
  • Swedish composer
  • Born in 1887
  • Died in 1955
  • Man
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