Halfdan Cleve

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Portrait of Halfdan Cleve (around 1898)

Halfdan Cleve (born October 5, 1879 in Kongsberg , † April 6, 1951 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian composer.

He studied from 1895 in Kristiania with Otto Winter-Hjelm and from 1898 in Berlin with Philipp and Xaver Scharwenka and from 1909 lived as a pianist and music teacher in Oslo.

He composed five piano concertos, a violin sonata, works for choir and orchestra and numerous piano pieces.

Documents

Letters from Halfdan Cleve are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters in the Leipzig State Archives .

literature

  • Karl Gustav Fellerer, Halfdan Cleve and Edvard Grieg, in: Anna Amalie Abert and Wilhelm Pfannkuch (eds.), Festschrift Friedrich Blume on his 70th birthday, Kassel 1963, pp. 124-136.
personal data
SURNAME Cleve, Halfdan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Kongsberg
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1951
Place of death Oslo