Rikard Nordraak
Rikard Nordraak (born June 12, 1842 in Christiania , † March 20, 1866 in Berlin ) was a Norwegian composer . At the age of 18, he composed the Norwegian national anthem Ja, vi elsker dette lands (“Yes, we love this country”) based on a poem by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson .
Life
Nordraak was born in the Norwegian capital but studied in Copenhagen . At the age of 18 he moved to Berlin and studied with Theodor Kullak and Friedrich Kiel . He died of tuberculosis in Berlin, only 23 years old, and was buried in Cemetery IV of the Jerusalems- und Neue Kirche congregation in Berlin-Kreuzberg . Nordraak was a cousin of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and a friend of Edvard Grieg , whom he strongly influenced with his idea of an independent Norwegian music. Grieg composed a funeral march for his death .
The 40th anniversary of his death in 1906 was the occasion to make the grave more representative. During a ceremony, Bjørnson, now aged, unveiled a five-meter-high granite stone from Norway, which was placed on Nordraak's Berlin grave.
In 1925 Nordraak's bones were exhumed and reburied in Oslo in Vår Frelsers Gravlund , the Norwegian national cemetery. The magnificent grave complex in Berlin was preserved.
In Oslo (then Kristiania) a statue was erected by the sculptor Gustav Vigeland in 1911.
Rikard Nordraak's first tombstone in Berlin-Kreuzberg , Cemetery IV of the Jerusalem and New Church congregation
Rikard Nordraak grave since 1925 on Vår Frelsers Gravlund in Oslo, Norway
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Young Nordraak was sent to business school in Copenhagen at the age of 15, instead studying music and becoming a passionate representative of the national art movement.
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SURNAME | Nordraak, Rikard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1842 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Christiania |
DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1866 |
Place of death | Berlin |