EHRSTRÖM, FREDRIK AUGUST (, Luoto–, Helsinki), Finland's first song composer and first to set the poems of J. L. Runeberg to music.
During his youth Ehrström spent some years in St. Petersburg where a brother, Erik Gustav Ehrström, also a church musician and composer, was pastor of St. Katariina's Finnish-Swedish congregation. Fredrik taught singing in the church's parochial school. As a result, teaching singing remained his main interest throughout his life...