Tobias Norlind

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Tobias Johan Henrik Norlind (born May 6, 1879 in Vellinge , † August 13, 1947 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish music historian , museum director and author.

Life

Tobias Norlind was born as the son of pastor Lars Christenson and his wife Johanna Norlind in Vellinge, a parish in the southern Swedish province of Schonen (Skåne) . Like his four siblings, he bore his mother's more distinctive name. After school and matriculation examination at the private elementary school in Lund he started in 1897 at the city's university studies in practical and theoretical music. After a semester he went to Germany to continue his studies at various universities.

First he was in Leipzig at Easter 1898 to be trained to play the piano at the Conservatory of Music. In the autumn of 1898 he moved to Munich, where he studied composition with Ludwig Thuille and music history with Adolf Sandberger (instrumental music of the 15th and 16th centuries). From 1899 to 1900 he was in Berlin, where he took lessons from Oskar Fleischer , professor of musicology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . His other teachers were there a. a. Max Friedlaender , Carl Stumpf and Johannes Wolf . Between March and July 1899 he had already used library studies in Paris and London for his own research. While he was already establishing himself as a musicologist, he was now looking for a Swedish university degree. After returning to Sweden, he was in Uppsala in 1900/01 and then again in Lund from 1902. Here he finished his studies in 1903 with a bachelor's degree in aesthetics of literary and art history.

For the next few years, Norlind worked as a teacher and leader at various adult education centers (folkhögskola), such as in Sjögestad, Hemse, Högalid, Tomelilla 1907–1912, here rector 1912–1914, rector in Östra Grevie 1914–1917 and 1919–1931 in Stockholm . In 1908, Ewert Wrangel (1863-1940), professor of literary and art history in Lund, asked Norlind to develop a dissertation from a scientific article on Piae Cantiones that had already been published in German by Norlind . In 1909 he became Dr. phil. with the writing: Latinska skolsånger i Sverige och Finland (Latin school chants in Sweden and Finland).

Ever since his return to Lund and until 1914, Norlind was secretary of the Swedish section of the International Music Society , which was founded in Berlin in 1899 by Oskar Fleischer. At the same time he was the editor of their publication organs, anthologies and the journal of the International Music Society . He was the founder and from 1919 to 1926 president of the Swedish Society for Music Research (Svenska samfundet för musikforskning), the successor to the dissolved Int. Music society.

In 1919, in addition to teaching at Stockholm schools, he became a lecturer in music history at the Conservatory , the Music Academy of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (Kungliga Musikaliska Academies). In addition to these activities, he was also the director of the Stockholm Museum of Music History (Musikhistoriska museet). Norlind had been a member of the Academy since 1919 and holder of the Medal for Music Promotion (Medaljen för tonkonstens främjande).

Tobias Norlind was married to Anna Elina Lindh (1873–1951) since 1904. He died in Stockholm in 1947 after a brief illness.

Tobias Norlind's siblings also became known in part: his older brother Ernst Norlind (1877–1952) as a painter and author; the younger brother Arnold Norlind (1883–1929) as a geographer, author and translator. The other siblings were the older sister Laura Concordia Norlind (1875-1960) and the youngest brother Josef Yngve Vallentin Norlind (1887-1976).

Works (selection)

  • 1899 suites for Bach
  • 1899 The music history of Sweden in the years 1630–1730 In: Anthologies of the International Music Society, year 1, Leipzig 1899–1900
  • 1900 Swedish school songs in the Middle Ages and during the Reformation In: Anthologies […], 2, 1900–1901
  • 1906 Melodier till svenska folkvisor ock folkdanser, upptecknade for år 1800
  • 1909 Latinska Skolsånger i Sweden and Finland
  • 1912 Svenska allemogens Lif i folksled, folktro och folkdiktning
  • 1918 Svensk musikhistoria
  • 1924 Beethoven och hans tid
  • 1928 Concert and Opera Lexicon (Ed.)
  • 1930 Svensk folkmusik och folkdans
  • 1936–1939 Systematics of String Instruments (Ed.) 1–2. 1936-39. (Museum of Music History, Stockholm.)
    1. History of the zither. Stockholm 1936.
    2. History of the piano. Hanover and Stockholm 1939.

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SURNAME Norlind, Tobias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Norlind, Tobias Johan Henrik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish music historian, museum director and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Vellinge , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1947
Place of death Stockholm