Sweden’s “Spiritual Troubadour,” Ahn­felt com­posed or ar­ranged the mu­sic for all of Li­na San­dell’s hymns. Like San­dell, he was a Pi­e­tist and tra­veled through­out Scan­di­na­via sing­ing her hymns, ac­com­pa­ny­ing him­self with a 10 string gui­tar. The state church op­posed pi­e­tis­tic hymns and or­dered Ahn­felt to sing them be­fore King Karl XV. After hear­ing them, the king said, “You may sing as much as you de­sire in both of my king­doms.” He sang them so much that San­dell wrote, “Ahn­felt has sung my songs into the hearts of the peo­ple.” Jen­ny Lind, the Swed­ish Night­ing­ale, was al­so a Pi­e­tist and pop­u­lar­ized Sandell’s hymns in Amer­i­ca and wher­e­ver she sang. She al­so fi­nanced the first ed­i­tion of Ahnfelt’s songs, con­sist­ing most­ly of San­dell’s hymns.

Sources

Music

1. Ack, Saliga Stunder
2. Ahnfelt
3. Blott en Dag
4. My Heart Is Yearn­ing Ev­er
5. Tjäna
6. Tryggare Kan Ingen Vara