Magnus Granberg was born in Umea in northern Sweden in 1974. He studied saxophone and improvisation at the University of Gothenberg and in New York in his late teens and early twenties. He was self-taught as a composer.
In 2005, he formed his ensemble Skogen which on November 12th 2010 recorded his composition “Ist gefellen in den Schnee” at Atlantis, Stockholm. The nine members of Skogen included Granberg himself on piano, an instrument he had taught himself. The album was released on Another Timbre in February 2012. As with many of Granberg’s compositions, he used other music as inspiration for his own, without copying other composers’ work. As sources of inspiration for “Ist gefellen in den Schnee” he said he had referred to two…
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Setting aside initial plans for a second chapter of THE HARP, 
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