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Swedish author, composer and music critic

Elsa Marianne Stuart-Bergstrom (26 April 1889 – 19 May 1970) was a Swedish author, composer,( and music critic who wrote several biographies, composed about 60 songs as well as orchestral works, and sometimes published under the pseudonyms Kaimen or E.M.S.

Stuart-Bergstrom was born in Stockholm to Hanna Mariana Hjerpe and Johan Magnus Stuart. 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. She studied music at the Stockholm Conservatory with Lennart Lundberg and Kerstin Stroemberg, and with Felix Saul, a local cantor.

In 1932, Stuart-Bergstrom married Richard Bergstrom, a Swedish Customs clerk, and they moved to Skara, where she lived the rest of her life. 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 or E.M.S. Stuart-Bergstrom was a member of the Stockholm Foreign Press Association.

Stuart-Bergstrom's papers are archived at the Swedish Music and Theater Library (Musikverket). Her composition manuscripts are stored at the Diocesan and National Libraries of Skara, Her publications include:

Books

Music

  • about 60 songs
  • “Song in folk tone” (voice and piano; text by Bengt E. Nyström)
  • “Spelare-Jan” (voice and piano; text by Bengt E. Bystrom)

References

  1. ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. New York: Books & Music USA Inc. p. 674. ISBN 0961748524.
  2. Hennessee, Don (1993). Women in Music. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810827691.
  3. ^ "Swedish Musical Heritage - Elsa M. Stuart". www.swedishmusicalheritage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  4. 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)
  5. Stuart-Bergstrom, Elsa (25 April 1889). "Family Tree & Family History at Geni.com". www.geni.com. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  6. ^ "Sveriges Orkesterförbund - Förbundet för orkester & musikant | SOF" (PDF). Sveriges Orkesterförbund (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  7. Room, Adrian (2014-01-10). Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, 5th ed. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5763-2.
  8. The International Who's who. Europa Publications Limited. 1940.
  9. "CalmView: Overview". calmview.musikverk.se. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  10. Chiti, Patricia Adkins (1996). Donne in musica (in Italian). Armando. ISBN 978-88-7144-593-9.
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