Sixten Ehrling

Sixten Ehrling was one of the most famous Swedish conductors. He studied violin and piano as a child. When he entered the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm he continued with those instruments and also studied conducting and composition. He pursued conducting studies in London (with Albert Wolff) and in Paris. He briefly pursued the career of a concert pianist, but soon became an assistant to Karl Böhm in Dresden while also taking conducting lessons from him. He returned to Sweden as a coach at the Royal Opera, Stockholm, and made a conducting debut there in 1940. In 1942 h...