Anna Lang (harpist)

Anna Lang, née Nordqvist (Stockholm, 5 July 1874 – 12 December 1920) was a Swedish court harpist.

Life and work

Lang was the daughter of the conductor of the Kungliga Hovkapellet, Conrad Nordqvist. She received the von Beskow scholarship in 1883, became a student at Royal College of Music, Stockholm 1887, and was a harpist at Hovkapellet from 1890 until her death in 1920.

She married her teacher, the harp composer Josef Lang in 1895; their daughter, Ingrid Lang-Fagerström (1897–1990), was also a harpist in Hovkapellet, the Swedish royal chapel orchestra until 1962.

Anna Lang died on 12 December 1920 in Lidingö. She and her husband are buried in Lidingö cemetery.

See also

• Charlotta Seuerling
• Marie Pauline Åhman

Sources

• Anna Lang, född Nordqvist i Adolf Lindgren och Nils Personne, Svenskt porträttgalleri (1897), volym XXI. Tonkonstnärer och sceniska artister
• Profil pÃ¥ Hovkapellets webbplats.

References