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Composer, impresario, conductor, pianist, singer, and
harpist Laura Constance Netzel (1839–1927)
was known and esteemed under the pseudonym ‘Lago’.
She was born in Finland, but grew up in Stockholm,
where her piano teacher Mauritz Gisiko was responsible
for her initial musical education. Later she studied
voice under opera singer Julius Günther, and piano
under Viennese virtuoso pianist Anton Door. She made
her début as a pianist at the age of 18 with Carl Maria
von Weber’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major, and
according to Stockholms Dagblad was admired for her
‘aplomb’ and ‘assuredness’. She was then quite active
as a piano soloist and as a chamber musician. In 1866,
she married physician in obstetrics and gynaecology,
Nils Wilhelm Netzel (1834–1914), who was four years
her senior. They had four children: Sigrid, Nils, Malin
and Laura. While married, she continued to perform
publicly as a singer and pianist, and actively participated
in the Harmoniska Sällskapet (an egalitarian group of
amateurs and professionals who met in their love of
music) and in King Oscar II’s musical soirées.
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