Alice Tegnér
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Alice Charlotta Sandström |
| Born | 12 March 1864 Karlshamn, Sweden |
| Died | 26 May 1943 (aged 79) Djursholm, Sweden |
| Genres | Children's songs Hymn |
| Occupation(s) | Composer Music teacher Organist |
| Years active | 19th-20th centuries |
| Spouse | Jakob Tegnér (m. 1885) |
Alice Charlotta Tegnér (Swedish: [aˈliːs tɛŋˈneːr];[1] née Sandström; 12 March 1864 – 26 May 1943) was a Swedish music teacher, poet and composer. She is the foremost composer of Swedish children's songs during the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.[2]
Background
[edit]Alice Charlotta Sandström was born in Karlshamn, Sweden, the daughter of Eduard Sandström (1829–1879), a ship's captain. The family moved to Stockholm in 1877 and Alice attended Åhlinska skolan. From 1880 to 1883 Sandström attended the Royal Seminary (Högre lärarinneseminariet) in Stockholm to train as a teacher. After graduation, she worked as governess. Her first position, in Finland, lasted a year. Her second position was with the publisher Frans Beijer in Stockholm.[3]
In 1885, she married Jakob Tegnér (1851–1926), a lawyer, and later secretary of the Swedish Publishers' Association and editor of Svenska Bokhandelstidningen.[4][5] The couple moved to the new suburb of Djursholm in 1891. Alice Tegnér worked voluntarily as a teacher at Djursholms samskola and with the choir in the Djursholm chapel where Natanael Beskow was a preacher.[3]
Career
[edit]Alice Tegnér wrote many well-known children's songs in Swedish, most notably Mors lilla Olle. It was published during 1895 in volume 3 of Sjung med oss, mamma![6]
Tegnér also worked in such classical genres as chamber and sacred music together with choral music, cantatas, cello and violin sonatas. Her songs and compositions were inspired by both folk and art music. Her well-known hymnbook Nu ska vi sjunga, with illustrations by Elsa Beskow, was published in 1943.[7]
Awards
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- 1914 Litteris et Artibus
- 1926 member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (Kungliga Musikaliska akademien)
- 1929 First prize in the magazine Idun tonsättartävling
Selected works
[edit]Children's songs
[edit]- Asarumsdalen
- Baka kaka
- Borgmästar Munthe
- Bä, bä, vita lamm
- Dansa min docka
- Ekorrn satt i granen
- Hemåt i regnväder (text: Zacharias Topelius)
- I skogen
- Julbocken
- Kring julgranen
- Lasse liten (text: Zacharias Topelius)
- Marschlek
- Skogsblommorna till barnen (text: Elsa Beskow)
- Sockerbagare
Other songs
[edit]- Var är den Vän, som överallt jag söker (text: Johan Olof Wallin)
- Betlehems stjärna (Gläns över sjö och strand) (text: Viktor Rydberg)
- Hell, vårt land!
Other works
[edit]- Violin Sonata in A Minor
References
[edit]- ^ "Vi firar Alice Tegnér". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 13 March 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
- ^ "Alice Tegnér samlingen (National Library of Sweden)". arken.kb.se. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Alice Tegnér (1864−1943)". Levande musikarv (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 April 2024.
- ^ Alice Tegnér – via Project Runeberg.
- ^ "Släkten Tegnér". Tegnérs Södra Äng. Archived from the original on 6 June 2002. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ Hallberg, Kristin (2008-07-21). "Stor dramatik när lilla Olle går igen". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ^ "Sampling of Music (The Music Library of Sweden)". www.muslib.se. Archived from the original on 12 August 2010.
External links
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- Alice Tegnér at Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon
- LIBRIS Search Services.
- Sjung med oss, Mamma! – 161 children's songs as NWC, MIDI and PDF files.
- 1864 births
- 1943 deaths
- Litteris et Artibus recipients
- People from Karlshamn
- Swedish classical composers
- Swedish classical organists
- Swedish women classical composers
- Children's songwriters
- Swedish women songwriters
- Swedish women organists
- 19th-century organists
- 19th-century Swedish musicians
- Swedish poets
- Swedish women poets
- Swedish music educators
- Swedish women music educators