Alvar Kraft

{{Short description|Swedish composer (1901–1959)}} {{Infobox person | name = Alvar Kraft | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 19 September 1901 | birth_place = | death_date = 28 September 1959 | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Composer | years_active = 1939-1956 (film) }} '''Alvar Kraft''' (19 September 1901 – 28 September 1959) was a Swedish pianist, bandleader and composer. His compositions included film music and popular songs.<ref>Qvist & von Bagh p.181</ref> He was married to the actress Bullan Weijden.

He toured with singer Edvard Persson as his accompanist.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ann-Kristin Wallengren|title=Welcome Home Mr Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film|publisher=Nordic Academic Press|year=2014|isbn=9789187675119|page=140}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Bashful Anton'' (1940) * ''A Sailor on Horseback'' (1940) * ''Sunny Sunberg'' (1941) * ''Sun Over Klara'' (1942) * ''Life in the Country'' (1943) * ''Turn of the Century'' (1944) * ''The Happy Tailor'' (1945) * ''The Bells of the Old Town'' (1946) * ''Jens Mansson in America'' (1947) * ''Each Heart Has Its Own Story'' (1948)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Bibliography == *Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. ''Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

== External links == *{{IMDb name|0469177}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kraft, Alvar}} Category:1901 births Category:1959 deaths Category:Swedish composers Category:Swedish male composers Category:20th-century Swedish male musicians