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Lars Edlund
Person · male · Sweden · Karlstad church parish · born 1922 · died 2013 · recording since 2000
Swedish organist and composer (1922–2013)
Timeline
7 events✦ Award 3◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1▣ Album 1† Death 1
1920s
1970s
1990s
2000s
· Debut release
Debut release: Ikoner
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
2010s
Biography
English biography165 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1268620803
Biography
Lars Edlund (6 November 1922 – 21 December 2013) was a Swedish composer, organist and music teacher.
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 music, and converted to Catholicism later in life.
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. 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. 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.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 3 | 95.4th |
| Timeline events | 7 | 82.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (1 release groups · 1 studio albums)
Albums · 1
2000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:07:28
1Ikoner: I. Madrigal5:572Ikoner: II. Många steg2:493Ikoner: III. Romanska bågar6:254Paradiso: I. Come L’Augello10:575Paradiso: II. La bellezza di Beatrice5:386Paradiso: III. Oh, quanto è corto6:137Två dikter: I. Förvandlingar i vintervatten2:318Två dikter: II. Metamorfoser vid Siljan5:099Näverbitar: I. Vykort4:5610Näverbitar: II. Ordspråksbonad3:5411Näverbitar: III. Låt1:5312Näverbitar: IV. På en näverdosa4:1213Näverbitar: V. Våren3:2414Näverbitar: VI. Doftminne3:30
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Lars Edlund head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 3 | 95.4th |
| Timeline events | 7 | 82.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Hugo Alfvén Award | won | |
| 1990 | Kurt Atterberg Prize | won | |
| 1994 | Q10656955 | won |
Where this record comes from
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https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bae8b6e9-e7bb-4ca9-8ddf-54d6f2a5053cdiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bae8b6e9-e7bb-4ca9-8ddf-54d6f2a5053ccore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5627296seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Edlundbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Edlund
Why this artist is in the database
- List of composers by name
- List of Swedish musicians
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Wikidata: Q5627296 · MusicBrainz: bae8b6e9-e7bb-4ca9-8ddf-54d6f2a5053c
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