Nils-Göran Areskoug

Nils-Göran Areskoug (18 May 1951 – 10 June 2025) was a Swedish physician, musicologist, composer, and author. He served as Associate Professor in Transdisciplinary Research at the Swedish Academy and as Associate Professor in Musicology at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Early life and education Areskoug was born in Växjö, Sweden on 18 May 1951. He trained as a medical doctor and was certified as a cantor and organist at the Lund Cathedral in 1968. Early music teachers in Växjö included Nils Andersson, Ture Olsson, Janis Ozolins, Sylvia Mang-Borenberg, and Ladis and Boiana Müller. He studied musicology with Martin Tegen and literature with E.N. Tigerstedt at Stockholm University (from 1970), was supervised in his doctoral studies by Ingmar Bengtsson at Uppsala University (1974) and mentored by Bo Wallner at Royal University College of Music, Stockholm. As a pianist, he studied at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg with Hans Leygraf in 1969 and, as a conductor, with Sergiu Celibidache in Mainz, Stuttgart and Munich from 1978 to 1995. As a composer, Areskoug attended seminars with mentors such as Olivier Messiaen in Paris 1973, and György Ligeti in Stockholm, during the 197