ANDREE, Elfrida

ANDREE, Elfrida Swedish organist, teacher and composer. Visby, February 19, 1841; Stockholm, January 11, 1929. She had her first music education from her father and W. Sohrling in Visby, then she studied composition at the Stockholm Conservatory under L. Norman and H. Berens. She became the first woman telegraphist in Sweden and a pioneer of women’s rights. In Copenhagen she studied under N. Gade, then taught singing at a teachers’ training college, whilst waiting for a change in the law…