Background
Edlund was born in Karlstad, Värmland County.
Edlund was born in Karlstad, Värmland County.
He studied music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, with Ina Lohr.
Edlund started working as a church musician in the early 1940s, and was also a teacher at the Swedish Royal College of Music in Stockholm. From 1971 onwards he worked solely as a composer. The majority of his compositions were vocal music, many of them with texts on religious or existentialist themes.
He also set poems by Gunnar Ekelöf and Tomas Tranströmer to music
Lars Edlund lived in Uppsala from the 1980s until his death.
He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1975.