====== Hambraeus, Bengt ====== 
 (29 Jan. 1928-21 Sept. 2000), composer, musician, musicologist, and author. He was born in Sweden and educated there and elsewhere in Europe (Ph. D. Uppsala, 1956) and was employed 1957-1972 by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation’s music department. Moving to Canada, he was a member from 1972 of the Music Faculty at McGill University (retired 1995). A man of recognized importance and achievement, Hambraeus received many honours, including Sweden’s Royal Medal Litteris et Artibus (1986) and the presentation to him of a festschrift called //Crosscurrents and Counterpoints: Offerings in Honor of Bengt Hambraeus at 70//. A Glengarry resident after an earlier period of residence in Montreal, he died at his home near Apple Hill.


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<fs small>Extended entry for him in Helmut Kollmann and others, //Encyclopedia of Music in Canada// (2nd edn., 1992) * Hurtig, II. 955 * Lorna Foreman, “Famous Music Scholar Enjoys Life in Glengarry,” //Glengarry News// 18 Nov. 1998 (with portrait) *Internet sources
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