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Olof Åhlström (Composer)

Born: 15th August 1756, Sodermanland, Sweden

Died: 11th August 1835, Stockholm, Sweden

Nationality: Swedish

Olof Åhlström was a Swedish civil servant, composer and music publisher.

Åhlström was born in a peasant family in Vårdinge parish in Södermanland. He received early musical lessons from the parish organist but left his home at the age of sixteen to enroll in the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. He was appointed organist in the Stockholm parish of Maria Magdalena in 1777 and moved to Jakob parish in 1792. In addition to his professional life as a musician, he took a clerk's position in Krigskollegium (the War Office), where in 1805 he reached the position of krigsråd ("War Councillor").

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