Lilleba Lund Kvandal

{{Short description | Norwegian soprano singer}}

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| birth_name = Annbjørg Helene Lund

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|4|21|df=y}}

| birth_place = Oslo, Norway

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|9|30|1940|4|21|df=y}}

| death_place = Bærum, Norway

| nationality = Norwegian

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| spouse = {{marriage|Johan Kvandal|1976|1999|end=d.}}

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| relatives = David Monrad Johansen (father-in-law)

| occupation = Opera singer

| alma_mater = Oslo Conservatory of Music

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Annbjørg Helene "Lilleba" Lund Kvandal (21 April 1940 – 30 September 2016) was a Norwegian soprano singer and song teacher.

She was born in Oslo to Casper Lund and Signe Jensen, and was married to composer Johan Kvandal from 1976. She studied at the Oslo Conservatory of Music and further in Hamburg, Munich and Zagreb. She made her concert debut in Augsburg in 1963. Between 1963 and 1970 she was assigned with various opera houses in Germany.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Lilleba Lund Kvandal |first= |last= |authorlink= |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Lilleba_Lund_Kvandal |language=Norwegian |accessdate=8 October 2016}}{{cite encyclopedia|title=Johan Kvandal |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Nils |last=Grinde |authorlink= |editor=Helle, Knut |editor-link=Knut Helle |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Johan_Kvandal |language=Norwegian |accessdate=8 October 2016}}{{cite news | title=Nekrolog: Lilleba Lund Kvandal |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/personalia/Nekrolog-Lilleba-Lund-Kvandal-606298b.html |first=Dagne Groven |last=Myhren |newspaper=Aftenposten |date=7 October 2016 |accessdate=8 October 2016}}

In 1966, she won third prize in the ARD International Music Competition.

She edited the folk song collection Norske folkeviser gjennom tusen år from 2000, based on the song collections of Catharinus Elling, Ludvig Mathias Lindeman and others. The collection includes children's songs (lullabies, singing games), youth songs, shieling songs and melodies (calls, nymph songs, and tunes for zither, flute and goat horn), medieval ballads, comic ballads, and hymns.{{cite book|title=Norske folkeviser gjennom tusen år |editor-first=Lilleba Lund |editor-last=Kvandal |year=2000 |publisher=Cappelen |isbn=82-02-18473-8}}

With her husband, who died in 1999, she resided at {{interlanguage link|Gyssestad|qid=Q11973482}} in Bærum.{{cite news|title=Synger hele dagen|last=Sjølie|first=Mette|date=21 April 2015|work=Budstikka|language=Norwegian}} She died in 2016.