Oscar Arpi

1824-1890.

Conductor, music teacher.

Oscar Arpi was born in Börstil in north-eastern Uppland in 1824.

Arpi was conductor of the Allmänna sången 1852-1871 and of the OD 1853-1854, and also a music teacher at the Cathedral School in Uppsala 1855-1876.

He was the leader of the Uppsala Student Union from 1852 to 1871 and led the Allmänna sången when the choir won first prize at the international singing competition for male choirs in Paris in 1867.

Arpi was temperamental, had a technical gift for music and a magnetic and personal conducting talent.

 

Burial site: 0102-0131

Image description: Oscar Arpi, Uppsala ca 1865- ca 1880. Photo: Heinrich Osti / UUBThe image is cropped]
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