Sven-Eric Johanson

Sven Eric Emanuel Johanson (10 December 1919 - 29 September 1997) was a Swedish composer and organist.

[1] The parents were both officers in the Salvation Army, but in 1926 Hjalmar became a pastor in Missionsförbundet instead.

In the 1940s Johanson studied Ernst Krenek's book on the twelve-tone technique and employed it in his 1949 Sinfonia ostinata.

[2] In 1952 he became the organist at Hagens kapell (today Älvsborgs kyrka) in Gothenborg, a position he held until 1977.

He composed a number of concertos, som for unusual instruments like balalaika and nyckelharpa.