The Swedish composer, teacher and church musician Lars Edlund, a student of the Schola Cantorum in Basel, has died at the age of 91.
Born in Karlstad in 1922, Edlund was a student of Ina Lohr in Basel. He later taught at the Royal School of Music in Stockholm. He became a member of the Swedish Academy of Music in 1975.
Edlund was primarily known as an extremely prolific composer of choral works, some of which have found their way into the official hymnal of the Church of Sweden.
