Anna Lang | |
Birth Name: | Anna Nordqvist |
Birth Date: | 5 July 1874 |
Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
Death Date: | 12 December 1920 |
Death Place: | Lidingö, Sweden |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Alma Mater: | Royal College of Music, Stockholm |
Occupation: | Harpist |
Spouse: | Josef Lang |
Children: | Ingrid Lang |
Father: | Conrad Nordqvist |
Anna Lang, née Nordqvist (Stockholm, 5 July 1874 – 12 December 1920) was a Swedish court harpist.
Lang was the daughter of the conductor of the Kungliga Hovkapellet, Conrad Nordqvist.[1] 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.[2] [3]
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.