Elsa Stuart-Bergstrom
Elsa Marianne Stuart-Bergstrom (26 April 1889 – 19 May 1970) was a Swedish author,[1] composer,([2] and music critic who wrote several biographies, composed about 60 songs[3] as well as orchestral works, and sometimes published under the pseudonyms Kaimen or E.M.S.[4]
Stuart-Bergstrom was born in Stockholm to Hanna Mariana Hjerpe and Johan Magnus Stuart.[5] Hanna was a housekeeper and seamstress for Stuart; they married in 1906. Stuart-Bergstrom lived with her aunt, Tekla Rydbergi Soderkoping, for much of her childhood. She graduated from the Wallinska Skolan in Stockholm, then studied art and literary history at Stockholm University.[6] She studied music at the Stockholm Conservatory with Lennart Lundberg and Kerstin Stroemberg,[1] and with Felix Saul, a local cantor.[3]
In 1932, Stuart-Bergstrom married Richard Bergstrom, a Swedish Customs clerk, and they moved to Skara, where she lived the rest of her life.[6] She lectured on the radio and worked as a music critic for Stockholm newspapers as well as for the Musical Times (London), sometimes using the pseudonym Kaimen[7] or E.M.S.[3] Stuart-Bergstrom was a member of the Stockholm Foreign Press Association.[8]
Stuart-Bergstrom's papers are archived at the Swedish Music and Theater Library (Musikverket).[9] Her composition manuscripts are stored at the Diocesan and National Libraries of Skara,[6] Her publications include:
Books
[edit]Music
[edit]- about 60 songs
- “Song in folk tone” (voice and piano; text by Bengt E. Nyström)[3]
- “Spelare-Jan” (voice and piano; text by Bengt E. Bystrom)[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. New York: Books & Music USA Inc. p. 674. ISBN 0961748524.
- ^ Hennessee, Don (1993). Women in Music. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810827691.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Swedish Musical Heritage - Elsa M. Stuart". www.swedishmusicalheritage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
- ^ Drone, Jeanette Marie (2007). Musical AKAs : assumed names and sobriquets of composers, songwriters, librettists, lyricists, hymnists, and writers on music. Lanham, Maryland. ISBN 978-0-8108-5739-1. OCLC 62858081.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Stuart-Bergstrom, Elsa (25 April 1889). "Family Tree & Family History at Geni.com". www.geni.com. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
- ^ a b c "Sveriges Orkesterförbund - Förbundet för orkester & musikant | SOF" (PDF). Sveriges Orkesterförbund (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-10-23.
- ^ Room, Adrian (2014-01-10). Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, 5th ed. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5763-2.
- ^ The International Who's who. Europa Publications Limited. 1940.
- ^ "CalmView: Overview". calmview.musikverk.se. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
- ^ Chiti, Patricia Adkins (1996). Donne in musica (in Italian). Armando. ISBN 978-88-7144-593-9.
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- 1889 births
- 1970 deaths
- Swedish women composers
- Swedish music critics
- Swedish women critics
- Women music critics
- Swedish writers about music
- Women writers about music
- 20th-century pseudonymous writers
- Writers from Stockholm
- Stockholm University alumni
- Pseudonymous women writers
- 20th-century Swedish women writers
- Swedish women biographers
- Swedish biographers