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Johan Sundberg (born in
1936, Ph.D. in musicology Uppsala University 1966, doctor honoris causae 1996
University of York, UK) had a personal chair in Music Acoustics at the
department from 1979 to his retirement 2001. Since 2002 he is Visiting
Professor at the University of London, UK. He early became
interested in the acoustical aspects of music, starting with a doctoral
dissertation work on organ pipes. After the dissertation, singing voice and
music performance have been his main research topics. He was the head of the
music acoustics research group from 1970 to 2001. He has supervised or co-supervised
17 doctoral dissertations, 7 in medical faculties. In Musikens Ljudlära Sundberg presents music acoustics in popularized form to the interested layman. The book Röstlära, 3rd edition 2001, presents an overview of research on the singing voice. As the President of the Music Acoustics Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, Sundberg was editor or co-editor of twelve volumes in a series of proceedings of public seminars on music acoustic themes arranged in Stockholm since 1975. Sundberg has also had
extensive experience of performing music. For 24 years he was a member of the
Stockholm Bach Choir, 9 years as its president. He has studied singing for
Dagmar Gustafson and made his public debute with a Lieder recital on his 50th
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