HERMODSSON, Elisabeth

Elisabet Hermodsson began to compose ballads during her highschool years and also put Nils Ferlin and (Harriet Löwenhjelm) poems to music. Her musical sources of inspirations were C M Bellman, Evert Taube, and Birger Sjöberg, as well as Schubert’s romances. Her first collection of ballads, Vad gör vi med sommaren, kamrater? och andra visor från Fårö, hav och människa, was published in 1973. That same year she made her debut as a singer/ballad composer by singing these ballads in arrangements by Georg Riedel. Like (Barbro Hörberg), Elisabet Hermodsson was one of the few women who at this time composed and performed her own ballads.