Johan Peter Selmer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johan Selmer around 1886. Photo: Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo.
Johan Selmer's grave in Oslo

Johan Peter Selmer (born January 20, 1844 in Kristiania , † July 21, 1910 in Venice ) was a Norwegian composer.

Selmer studied in Paris with Ambroise Thomas and Charles-Alexis Chauvet . Because of his involvement in the uprising of the Paris Commune , he was sentenced to death, but was able to flee to Leipzig , where he continued his training at the Leipzig Conservatory with Ernst Friedrich Richter and Salomon Jadassohn . From 1883 he lived as a conductor in Kristiania, where he was director of the Philharmonic Concerts from 1883 to 1886. He composed a number of programmatic orchestral pieces that were under the influence of Wagner , Liszt and Berlioz and counts as "the most radical progressive man in Norwegian neo-romanticism".

Works

  • Scène funèbre
  • L'année terrible
  • Alastor
  • Carnaval en Flandres
  • Prometheus

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Niemann, The Music of Scandinavia, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1906, p. 82.

swell

literature

  • Walter Niemann, The Music of Scandinavia . Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1906.
  • Paul Merkel, The Norwegian composer Johan Selmer: a picture of life . Leipzig: Siegel, [1904].
personal data
SURNAME Selmer, Johan Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Kristiania
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1910
Place of death Venice