Elfrida Andrée (1858-1937)
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| "Elfrida Andrée,
born in Visby, Sweden, on 19 February 1841, was openly feminist. Not
being able to enter the organ class at the Royal Academy of Music
in Stockholm because women were not admitted, she prepared the exam
on her own and was awarded the organist diploma from the Academy in
1857. Then, faced with the Swedish clergy who were hostile to the
idea of women in the organ loft, she engaged herself in a long political
combat, supported by her father, Andreas Andrée, an ardent
supporter of the emancipation of women. In this way, she helped Swedish
women to gain access to organist positions from 1861 onwards. She
herself held the position of organist at the cathedral of Göteborg
from 1867 to her death in 1929 at the age of eighty-seven."
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