Hjalmar Borgstrøm

Hjalmar Borgstrøm (born March 23, 1864 in Kristiania (now Oslo ), † July 5, 1925 ibid) was a Norwegian music journalist and composer .

Borgstrøm was a student of Johan Svendsen and Ludvig Mathias Lindeman and studied at the Leipzig Conservatory . From 1901 he worked as a music journalist for various magazines in Oslo .

He composed two operas and two symphonies , several symphonic poems (including Hamlet and Tanken ), a piano and a violin concerto, string quartets and a piano quintet, violin sonatas, piano pieces and songs.

Discography

Torah paa Rimol , Opera in 2 acts op.7, Trondheim Symfoniorkester, Terje Boye Hansen, 2002 Simax
Violin Concerto op.25 , Eldbjørg Hemsing , Wiener Symphoniker , Olari Elts , 2018 BIS

Individual evidence

↑ Alexander Campbell: Torah paa Rimol - Trønder Opera. Review of the World Premiere Performance. In: The Classical Source. Colin Anderson, October 2002, accessed April 18, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Borgstrøm, Hjalmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian music journalist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 23, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kristiania
DATE OF DEATH	July 5, 1925
Place of death	Kristiania

[1] Alexander Campbell: Torah paa Rimol - Trønder Opera. Review of the World Premiere Performance. In: The Classical Source. Colin Anderson, October 2002, accessed April 18, 2018 .