Ingvar Lidholm

Ingvar Lidholm(b Jönköping, 24 Feb 1921). Swedish composer. In 1940 he entered the Royal Swedish Academy of Music to study the violin with Barkel, the piano with Brandel and conducting with Mann, but in 1943 he broke off his studies to join the royal chapel as a viola player.

He stayed there until 1946, also studying composition with Rosenberg during this period. Later he was associated with other Rosenberg pupils (Blomdahl, Bäck, Johanson and others) in the influential Monday Group. He conducted the partly amateur Örebro Orchestra from 1947 to 1956, during which period he visited France, Switzerland and Italy (1946–7), the Darmstadt summer courses (1949) and England for further composition studies with Seiber (1954). He has also served as director of chamber music for Swedish Radio (1956–65), professor of composition at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (1965–75) and director of planning for the radio music department (1974–9) and consultant (1979–84).