![Knut Hakanson]() | Knut Hakanson (1887 - 1929)  SwedenKnut Håkanson, born in Kinna on 4 November 1887 and died in Gothenburg on 13 December 1929, was a composer, conductor and music critic. He was educated in philosophy and languages at Uppsala University and at the same time took lessons in harmony from Aron Bergenson, studied composition with Johan Lindegren, and later also with Ruben Liljefors − a student of Reger, and piano under Knut Bäck. In 1916 he returned to Rydboholm, south of Borås. Beginning in 1928 he became a groundbreaking music critic for the newspaper Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning. |
