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JOHANN SEVERIN SVENDSEN (184o– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 175 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHANN SEVERIN

SVENDSEN (184o– )  ,
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Norwegian composer, was born in Christiania on the 3oth of September 1840 . He learnt the elements of
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music and
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violin-playing from his
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father, and after serving for some time in the army, and later touring as violinist with a troup of instrumentalists, he entered the conservatorium at
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Leipzig through the aid of the king of Sweden . After another tour, which extended to the
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British Isles, Svendsen spent a
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year in Paris, and in 1871–1872 was leader of the once famous Euterpe concerts in Leipzig . In 1871 he married an
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American, and from 1872 to 1877 he conducted the Christiania Musical Society, while in 1877–1879 he lived in Rome,
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London and Paris . In 1883 Svendsen became court ka.pelimeister at Copenhagen . Probably we have to go back to Schubert to find a composer Whose Opus 1 has attained the wide popularity of Svendsen's A minor
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string quartet, while his beautiful octet, Opus 3, added to his fame . Though Svendsen was at one time intimate with Wagner, the latter does not seem to have influenced his music, which includes two symphonies, a violin concerto, and a.
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romance for violin, as well as a number of Norwegian rhapsodies for the orchestra .

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