Biography

Erik Nordgren was born on February 13, 1913 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He was a composer, known for Wild Strawberries (1957), The Seventh Seal (1957) and The Virgin Spring (1960). He died on March 6, 1992 in Västerhaninge, Haninge, Stockholms län, Sweden.

Composer, violinist, conductor and music teacher, a graduate of the Stockholm Royal Academy of Music. Nordgren served as music director at Svensk Filmindustri from 1952 to 1967, where he worked on most of Ingmar Bergman's early films (seventeen scores in total).