Jacob Adolf Hägg was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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Hägg studied piano

Piano

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 at the Stockholm Conservatory

Royal College of Music, Stockholm

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 from 1865 to 1870, as well as composition

Musical composition

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 in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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 with Niels Wilhelm Gade

Niels Wilhelm Gade

Niels Wilhelm Gade was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. He is considered the most important Danish musician of his day.-Biography:...

 and in Berlin

Berlin

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 with Friedrich Kiel

Friedrich Kiel

Friedrich Kiel was a German composer and music teacher.Writing of the chamber music of Friedrich Kiel, the famous scholar and critic Wilhelm Altmann notes that it was Kiel’s extreme modesty which kept him and his exceptional works from receiving the consideration they deserved...

. Due to mental illness, he spent the years 1880 to 1895 in a hospital. He then worked as a pianist and composer in Hedvigsfors, Sweden, and continued to do so after moving to Norway

Norway

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 between 1900 to 1909 and resettling in Sweden at Hudiksvall

Hudiksvall

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Hägg composed four symphonies

Symphony

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 and other orchestra

Orchestra

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l and choral

Choir

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 works, chamber music

Chamber music

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, a collection of Little Nordic Songs without Words for piano, ten piano suite

Suite

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s, and pieces for cello

Cello

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 and for organ

Organ (music)

The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

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