Greta Dahlström

Greta Dahlström (21 August 1887 – 23 March 1978) was a Finnish music teacher and composer. She extensively worked on composing Finnish folk music, and assisted Otto Andersson in editing Swedish folk poetry.^[1][2]

Greta Dahlström

Biography

Born on 21 August 1887 in Tyrvää, Finland, Greta Dahlström was the daughter of Edvard Otto Stenbäck and Sofia Fransiska Ramsay. After completing her studies at the Helsinki Music Institute, she taught vocal music in public schools in Helsinki and Turku.^[2]

For more than a decade, she served as secretary of the Åboland Singing and Music Association. In 1953 she became conductor of Turku Swedish Women's Choir.^[3][4] She also collected folk songs for the Swedish Literature Society.^[2]

In 1925 she married Svante Dahlström, a Finnish historian, and was the mother of Fabian Dahlström, musicologist.^[5]

She died in Turku, Finland on 23 March 1978.

References

1. Ling, Jan (1997). A History of European Folk Music. Rochester: University Rochester Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-878-82277-2. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
2. Hillila, Ruth-Esther (1997). Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-313-27728-3. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
3. Straubhaar, Sandra Ballif (15 April 2019). Ballads of the North, Medieval to Modern: Essays Inspired by Larry Syndergaard. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 11. ISBN 978-3-110-66193-4. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
4. "Dahlström, Greta". uppslagsverket.fi. Uppslagsverket Finland. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
5. Hillila 1997, p. 51.