Dagmar Möller, born Dagmar Henriette Bosse (19 December 1866 – 13 January 1956), 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....

 singer (soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

) and vocal pedagogue. She was the dedicatee of Edvard Grieg

Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...

's song cycle Haugtussa

Haugtussa (Grieg)

Haugtussa Opus 67, or The Mountain Maid, is a song cycle for soprano and piano composed by Edvard Grieg in 1895 and published in 1898. It is the only song cycle in his entire repertoire. The text was written by the Norwegian writer Arne Garborg, an excerpt from his book of poetry Haugtussa...

and took past in many theatrical productions during her musical career.

Life

Möller studied at the Stockholm Conservatory between 1882 and 1887, and was employed at the Royal Theatre

Royal Theatre

There are several venues known by the name Royal Theatre or Royal Theater. They include:in Canada*Royal Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia, Canadain Denmark...

 from 1887 to 1894. Dagmar Möller studied with Désirée Artôt

Désirée Artôt

Désirée Artôt was a Belgian soprano , who was famed in German and Italian opera and sang mainly in Germany...

 in Paris

Paris

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 and made her debut at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1887. She had great success in comic roles in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 and in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 between 1891 and 1893. She was a teacher of singing at the Music Conservatory from 1900 to 1926 and at the Operahögskolan i Stockholm

Operahögskolan i Stockholm

Operahögskolan i Stockholm is a Swedish institution offering higher education in the field of opera music and related arts. Operahögskolan is tasked with educating singers, répétiteurs and opera directors and has approximately 40 students, including 36 singers enrolled.- External links :* for...

 from 1903 to 1913, as well as in theatrical productions from 1900 to 1913. She was also of great significance for the spreading of Nordic novel songs

Lied

is a German word literally meaning "song", usually used to describe romantic songs setting German poems of reasonably high literary aspirations, especially during the nineteenth century, beginning with Carl Loewe, Heinrich Marschner, and Franz Schubert and culminating with Hugo Wolf...

 and sang happyly to works by Grieg. He dedicated to her his Haugtussa songs, published in 1898. She also had songs by Emil Sjögren

Emil Sjögren

Johan Gustav Emil Sjögren was a Swedish composer.Born in Stockholm, Sjögren entered the Stockholm Conservatory at the age of seventeen and later continued his studies at the Berlin Conservatory....

, Wilhelm Stenhammar

Wilhelm Stenhammar

Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist.-Biography:Stenhammar was born in Stockholm, where he received his first musical education. He then went to Berlin to further his studies in music. He became a glowing admirer of German music, particularly that of Richard...

 and Peterson-Berger in her repertoire.

Dagmar Möller was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music

Royal Swedish Academy of Music

The Royal Swedish Academy of Music or Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien, founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden...

 as member 507 on 26 March 1903, and was given Litteris et Artibus

Litteris et Artibus

Litteris et Artibus is a Swedish royal medal established in 1853 by Charles XV of Sweden, who was then crown prince. It is awarded to people who have made important contributions to culture, especially music, dramatic art and literature....

 in 1911. Möller married in 1888 the musician Adolf Teodor Sterky and in 1896 the architect General Carl Möller

Carl Möller

Edvard Möller was a Swedish athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.In 1912 he finished fifth in the standing long jump competition. In the standing high jump event he finished fourth....

. She was the sister of Harriet Bosse

Harriet Bosse

Harriet Sofie Bosse was a Swedish–Norwegian actress. A celebrity in her own day, Bosse is today most commonly remembered as the third wife of August Strindberg, an influential playwright. Bosse began her career in a minor company run by her forceful older sister Alma Fahlstrøm in Kristiania...

 and Alma Fahlstrøm

Alma Fahlstrøm

Alma Isabella Bosse was born in Denmark, and became a well known Norwegian actress and theatre manager together with her husband Johan Fahlstrøm.Their only son, Arne Fahlstrøm, drowned in the Titanic disaster...

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