Introduction

Biography

Fredrik was the son of Lars Fred­rik Ek­ström and Ma­ria Chris­ti­na Sjö­ström.

He was an or­gan­ist and ele­ment­ary school teach­er in Gun­nil­bo parish, east of Skinn­skat­te­berg, in the dio­cese of Väs­ter­ås, la­ter post­ma­ster in Öregrund.

He is rep­resent­ed in the 1986 Swed­ish hymnal with a com­po­si­tion orig­in­al­ly called Klock­or­na, whose mu­sic was used for one of Li­na San­dell’s hymns.

The same mu­sic was used for the tem­per­ance move­ment’s song Här­lig är väck­en, frid­full och ren, which was pub­lished in their 1932 hymn­al.