(29 Jan. 1928-21 Sept. 2000), composer, musician, musicologist, and author. He was born in Sweden and educated there and elsewhere in Europe (Ph. D. Uppsala, 1956) and was employed 1957-1972 by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation’s music department. Moving to Canada, he was a member from 1972 of the Music Faculty at McGill University (retired 1995). A man of recognized importance and achievement, Hambraeus received many honours, including Sweden’s Royal Medal Litteris et Artibus (1986) and the presentation to him of a festschrift called Crosscurrents and Counterpoints: Offerings in Honor of Bengt Hambraeus at 70. A Glengarry resident after an earlier period of residence in Montreal, he died at his home near Apple Hill.

Extended entry for him in Helmut Kollmann and others, Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (2nd edn., 1992) * Hurtig, II. 955 * Lorna Foreman, “Famous Music Scholar Enjoys Life in Glengarry,” Glengarry News 18 Nov. 1998 (with portrait) *Internet sources