Sixten Ehrling, the Swedish conductor who has died aged 86, was a champion of contemporary music and notorious for his prickly temperament. He made his name in 1950, conducting a virtuosic performance ...

Sixten Ehrling, who conducted at the Royal Opera in Stockholm during its golden age in the 1950s and then left for the United States, where he led the Detroit Symphony for a decade, has died. He was ...

Sixten Ehrling, who has died aged 86, was dubbed "the dour Swede" in the United States, feared in his homeland as a rigorous conductor who did not suffer fools gladly, and respected in both countries.

The conductor Sixten Ehrling was renowned both for his encyclopaedic knowledge of music and for a temperament that gave short shrift to anyone falling below his own exacting standards. Evert Sixten ...