Ida Moberg

Ida Georgina Moberg (13 February 1859 – 2 August 1947) was a Finnish composer and conductor. She was born in Helsinki, and took piano and singing lessons as a child.

Ida Moberg in 1945.

She studied theory and composition from 1883 to 1884 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Later, she studied counterpoint under Richard Faltin and composition at the Helsinki Philharmonic Society's Orchestra School under Jean Sibelius. She studied composition from 1901 to 1905 under Felix Draeseke at Dresden Conservatory, and studied the Dalcroze method of improvisation in Berlin from 1911 to 1912.

After her education, Moberg worked as a composer, conductor, and teacher at the Helsinki Music Institute from 1914 to 1916.

Selected works

Title	Date[1]	Instrumentation[2]
Symphony	1905	Orchestra (lost)
Kalevala fantasy	n/a	Orchestra (lost)
Awaken / Vaknen!	1900?	Male choir and orchestra
Before the struggle / Före striden	n/a	Choir and strings
Life's struggle / Lifskamp	n/a	Male choir and orchestra
Amor mortis	n/a	Voice and organ
Asiens ljus	1910–1945	Opera (unfinished)
Ex Deo nascitur	n/a	Voice and organ (lost)
Night of the tyrant / Tyrannens natt	1909	Choir and strings
Sunrise, suite for orchestra	1909	Orchestra
Silence / Hiljaisuus	n/a	Orchestra