Atli Heimir Sveinsson

Atli Heimir Sveinsson (21 September 1938 - 20 April 2019) was an Icelandic composer. Sveinsson was born in Reykjavík, Iceland and started piano lessons at the age of 10. He studied piano with Rögnvaldur Sigurjonsson at the Reykjavík College of Music and took his diploma in 1957. He went on to study at the State Academy in Cologne, Germany, from 1959, studying composition with Günter Raphael and Rudolf Petzold, instrumentation with Bernd Alois Zimmermann