Born in Visby, Feb 19, 1841
Died in Göteborg, Jan 11, 1929
- Elfrida Andrée [PRONUNCIATION] was a Swedish organist, composer and conductor.
- Andrée’s teachers included Niels Gade.
- Andrée accomplished an impressive set of firsts:
- she was the first Swedish woman to pass the nation’s professional organist examination (and she successfully lobbied to change the law preventing women from holding the office organist at churches and cathedrals)
- she was the first Swedish woman to compose chamber music and symphonic music
- she was the first Swedish women to conduct a symphony orchestra.1
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Biography from Swedish Musical Heritage
Sources
- Eva Öhrström, “Andrée, Elfrida,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 30, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000000885.