Laura Constance Netzel ( Pistolekors; 1 March 1839 — 10 February 1927) was a Finnish-born Swedish composer, pianist, conductor and concert organizer who sometimes used the pseudonym N. Lago. She was born in Rantasalmi, Finland, and was proud of her Finnish heritage throughout her life, even though she was just one year old when she moved permanently to Stockholm. Netzel studied piano with Mauritz Gisiko and Anton Door, voice with Julius Günther and composition with Wilhelm Heinze in Stockholm and Charles-Marie Widor in France. Netzel was active in social causes, including support for poor women, children and workers. In 1866 she married professor Wilhelm Netzel of the Karolinska Institute. She died in Stockholm. Works Selected works: Stabat mater, Op. 45 (1890) Cello Sonata, Op. 66 (1899) Piano Trio, Op. 50 Piano Trio, Op. 68 Piano Trio, Op. 78 Piano Concerto in E minor, Op. 84 Reception Savon Music Society has undertaken a project to publish works by Laura Netzel and other unknown female composers. In August 2021 they organized a Laura Netzel Music Festival in Rantasalmi where her songs, instrumental pieces and orchestral works were performed in a series of concerts. Performances included Piano Sonata E flat major, Ballad for Soprano and Orchestra (Op. 35, world premiere), and Piano Concerto E minor, Op. 84. The piano concerto was premiered at Mikkeli Music Festival in 2020. An intense, high-Romantic, Lisztian work with a currency of grand rhetorical gestures and occasional moments of searching lyricism, it was reconstructed by the pianist Peter Friis Johansson who has since recorded it on the BIS label. References Further reading External links 1839 births 1927 deaths 19th-century classical composers 20th-century classical composers People from Mikkeli Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) People from Rantasalmi Swedish classical composers Women classical composers Swedish people of Finnish descent 20th-century Swedish women musicians Swedish women classical composers 19th-century Swedish musicians 19th-century Swedish women musicians 20th-century women composers 19th-century women composers