Born in Åkarp, Skåne, May 15, 1908
Died in Helsingborg, Dec 26, 1986
- Larsson studied at the Stockholm Conservatory and also took composition lessons with Alban Berg.
- Larsson spent much of his career as a composer and director for Swedish radio orchestras and was also a university composition professor.
- Style: Larsson’s music shows the influence of Nordic Romanticism (i.e. Grieg) but also of serialism and polytonality.1
Sources
- Göran Bergendal, “Larsson, Lars-Erik,” Grove Music Online (2001), accesse November 6, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000016042.