Valborg Werbeck-Svärdström [SEP] place of death
Valborg Werbeck-Svärdström
Valborg Werbeck-Svärdström (22 December 1879 in Gävle Sweden as "Valborg Svärdström" – 1 February 1972 in Bad Boll-Eckwälden) was a Swedish singer, voice teacher, and anthroposophist
Biography.
Valborg Werbeck-Sverdström grew up in the northern regions of Sweden.
“I was born 22. September 1879 in Gävle. 173 Km north of Stockholm,Sweden. My childhood, as far back as my memory reaches, was spent in intimate contact with Nature. […]
started in her singing school of the same name in Hamburg was introduced by "Wilhelm Dörfler" into his choir work from 1932 until 1939 at the Goetheanum in Dornach. The rise of National Socialism in Germany made her work increasingly difficult. Eventually she had to close her school and spent the War years in semi-isolation in Silesia. The years following the War she devoted totally to her therapeutic work and to the instruction of a circle of young musicians that had gathered around her.
Valborg Werbeck-Sverdström died in 1972