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

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