Nazi persecution. In 1944, the couple managed to obtain permission to leave Germany and moved to Sweden with their daughters. However, by this time their marriage was showing signs of strain and they divorced in 1946. Jón Leifs later married, and divorced, a Swedish woman, Thea Andersson. His third wife, who survived him, was Þorbjörg Jóhannsdóttir Leifs (1919–2008). She and Jón had one son, Leifur (b. 1957). In 1945 Jón Leifs moved back to Iceland (leaving his family in Sweden), and became a fierce proponent of music education and of artists’ rights. This included working for the ratification by Iceland of the Berne Convention, which happened in 1947, and setting up the Performing Rights Society of Iceland (STEF) in 1948. In 1947 tragedy struck. Jón Leifs’ younger daughter Líf drowned in a swimming accident off the coast of Sweden in 1947, aged only eighteen. Overcome with grief, he composed four works dedicated to her memory, including Requiem Op. 33b for mixed choir, perhaps his most celebrated piece. The other works are Torrek Op. 33a, for solo voice and piano, Erfiljóð (In memoriam) Op. 35 for male choir, and the string quartet Vita et mors Op. 36. Jón Leifs composed his last work, Consolation, Intermezzo for string orchestra, as he had only weeks to live. He died of lung cancer in Reykjavík in 1968. Jón Leifs and his first wife are the subjects of the film Tears of Stone (Tár úr steini) (1995) by Icelandic director Hilmar Oddsson. A square in Bergholz-Rehbrücke (Nuthetal, Germany), where he lived with his family from the 1930s until 1944, is named after him. Works Vökudraumur (Reverie) for solo piano (1913) Torrek – Intermezzo, Op. 1 No. 2 (piano piece) (1919) Trilogia piccola, Op. 1 (1922–24) Four Pieces for solo piano, Op. 2 (1921) Studies for solo violin, Op. 3 (1924) 3 Songs, Op. 4 (1924) Organ Prelude, Op. 5, No. 1 (1924) Kyrie, chorus, Op. 5, No. 2 (1924) Loftr-Suite, Op. 6a (1925) Íslensk þjóðlög (Icelandic Folk Songs) for solo piano (1925) Organ Concerto, Op. 7 (1930) Variations on a Theme by Beethoven, Op. 8 (1930) Iceland Overture, Op. 9 (1926) Overture to Loftr, Op. 10 (1927) Íslensk rímnadanslög (Icelandic Folk Dances), Op. 11 (1929–30) 3 Church Songs (Hymns) for voice and piano/organ, Op. 12a (1929) Iceland Cantata, Op. 13 (1930) 2 Songs for voice and piano, Op. 14a (1929–30) Ný rímnadanslög (New Icelandic Dances),