Alf Gabrielsson

Alf Gabrielsson was professor emeritus in psychology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He studied history, political science, psychology, history of art, and musicology at Uppsala University and organ playing at the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm. He earned his PhD with a thesis on musical rhythm from Uppsala University in 1973 and also conducted research at the Department of Technical Audiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. His research areas included musical rhythm, music performance, music experience, and audiology. He published numerous papers in scientific journals and books and served as consulting editor for Psychology of Music, Music Perception, Psychomusicology, and Music&‌aelig; Scienti&‌aelig;. He edited a volume on Action and Perception in Rhythm and Music(1987), and published a comprehensive volume on Strong Experiences with Music – Music is much more than just music (2011).

Until his retirement in 2001 Gabrielsson held a professorship and taught general psychology and music psychology in the Department of Psychology at Uppsala University and at the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm. He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, served as President of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) 1997-2000, organized the Third Triennial ESCOM Conference in Uppsala in 1997 and has been awarded the Honorary Life Membership of ESCOM and the SEMPRE Lifetime Achievement Award.

Alf Gabrielsson passed away on 24 May 2024, at the age of 87.