Wilhelm Peterson-Berger was born in 1867 in Ullanger on the Angermanland coast in northern Sweden, and spent his school years north of there on the Vasterbotten coast. He inherited his musicality form his mother, his first musical experience coming as a seven-year old, while listening enraptured to his mother playing Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata one evening. Thus was born his passion for sitting at the piano, improvising and composing.