Alice Tegnér

Training under Johan Lindegren is recorded. The recorded working language is Swedish. The field of work recorded is children's music and Christian hymn. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are children's song. Works named in the authority record are Mors lilla Olle, Tre pepparkaksgubbar and Sockerbagaren. Distinctions recorded are Litteris et Artibus.

• Name — Alice Tegnér • Birth Name — Alice Charlotta Sandström • Born — 12 March 1864 • Birthplace — Karlshamn, Sweden • Died — 26 May 1943 • Place of death — Djursholm, Sweden • Genre — Children's songs Hymn • Occupation — Composer Music teacher Organist • Spouse — Jakob Tegnér (m. 1885) • Years Active — 19th-20th centuries

Alice Charlotta Sandström was born in Karlshamn, Sweden, the daughter of Eduard Sandström (1829–1879), a ship's captain. The family moved to Stockholm in 1877 and Alice attended Åhlinska skolan. From 1880 to 1883 Sandström attended the Royal Seminary (Högre lärarinneseminariet) in Stockholm to train as a teacher. After graduation, she worked as governess. Her first position, in Finland, lasted a year. Her second position was with the publisher Frans Beijer in Stockholm. In 1885, she married Jakob Tegnér (1851–1926), a lawyer, and later secretary of the Swedish Publishers' Association and editor of Svenska Bokhandelstidningen. The couple moved to the new suburb of Djursholm in 1891. Alice Tegnér worked voluntarily as a teacher at Djursholms samskola and with the choir in the Djursholm chapel where Natanael Beskow was a preacher.

Alice Tegnér wrote many well-known children's songs in Swedish, most notably Mors lilla Olle. It was published during 1895 in volume 3 of Sjung med oss, mamma! Tegnér also worked in such classical genres as chamber and sacred music together with choral music, cantatas, cello and violin sonatas. Her songs and compositions were inspired by both folk and art music. Her well-known hymnbook Nu ska vi sjunga, with illustrations by Elsa Beskow, was published in 1943.

• Asarumsdalen • Baka kaka • Borgmästar Munthe • Bä, bä, vita lamm • Dansa min docka • Ekorrn satt i granen • Hemåt i regnväder (text: Zacharias Topelius) • I skogen • Julbocken • Kring julgranen • Lasse liten (text: Zacharias Topelius) • Marschlek • Skogsblommorna till barnen (text: Elsa Beskow) • Sockerbagare

• Var är den Vän, som överallt jag söker (text: Johan Olof Wallin) • Betlehems stjärna (Gläns över sjö och strand) (text: Viktor Rydberg) • Hell, vårt land!

• Violin Sonata in A Minor