Biography

Fagius studied organ with Bengt Berg before entering the Royal College of Music, Stockholm

Royal College of Music, Stockholm

The Royal College of Music, Stockholm is the oldest institution of higher education in music in Sweden, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music...

 where he studied with Alf Linder

Alf Linder

Alf Linder was a Swedish organist, renowned for his frequent radio broadcasts and his teaching at the Stockholm Conservatory.-Life:Linder was born in Hammerö, near Karlstad on July 28, 1907...

. After graduating in 1974 he studied organ privately with Maurice Duruflé

Maurice Duruflé

Maurice Duruflé was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue.Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure. In 1912, he became chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling...

 in Paris. He taught organ in Gothenburg and Stockholm before being appointed professor of organ at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1989. He became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music

Royal Swedish Academy of Music

The Royal Swedish Academy of Music or Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien, founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden...

 in 1998.

Recordings

Fagius has recorded many albums, including the complete organ works of J.S. Bach and the complete organ works of Maurice Duruflé

Maurice Duruflé

Maurice Duruflé was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue.Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure. In 1912, he became chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling...

. His recording of the three major organ works of Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

won the Grand Prix du Disque of the Hungarian Liszt Society in 1981.