Lennart Arvid Lundberg was born in Norrköping on 29 September 1863 and died in Karlshamn on 27 July 1931. He is most known for his contributions to piano teaching at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Stockholm, where he turned out a long line of successful pianists. He was also a composer and wrote a great deal of piano music that was subjective and harmonically bold for its time. He became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1904.