Ludvig Mathias Lindeman
Ludvig Mathias Lindeman | |
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Died | 11 March 1887 | (aged 74)
Occupation(s) | Norwegian composer and organist |
Ludvig Mathias Lindeman (28 November 1812 – 11 March 1887) was a Norwegian composer and organist. He is most noted for compiling Norwegian folk music in his work Ældre og nyere norske Fjeldmelodier.[1]
Background
Ludvig Mathias Lindeman was born in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. He was the seventh of ten children born to Ole Andreas Lindeman (1769–1857) and Anna Severine Hickmann (1782–1844). In 1833 he was sent to Oslo to take his final exams and then studied theology at the university. In 1839, Lindeman succeeded his elder brother, Jacob Andreas Lindeman (1805–1846), as cantor and organist of the Oslo Cathedral. Lindeman was in the position for 48 years until his death in 1887. Composer Fredrikke Waaler was one of his students.
Career
Lindeman was a contributor to Jørgen Moe's song and folk-ballad collection, Samling af Sange, Folkeviser og Stev i norske Alumuedialekter (1840), putting together the melody supplement to the volume at Bishop Moe's request. The following year, he published his own selection of Norwegian folk melodies, Norske Fjeldmelodier harmonisk bearbeidede for Pianoforte (1841).[2] In 1848, he applied for a university grant to support a trip in the hill country in order to record folk melodies. Later he made two collecting trips, in 1851 and 1864. The first trip was to Telemark, Hardanger, Bergen and Hallingdal and the last to Lillehammer. In all, he collected about 3,000 melodies and lyrics. He published Ældre og nyere norske Fjeldmelodier ("Earlier and more recent Norwegian mountain melodies") in twelve volumes during 1853–1863. This first edition contained 540 melodies, but Lindeman supplemented the corpus with Halvhundrede norske Fjeldmelodier ("Fifty Norwegian mountain melodies"; 1862).[2]
When in 1871, the major new organ in the
Selected works
- Norske Fjeldmelodier harmonisk bearbeidede for Pianoforte (1841)
- Norske Folkeviser udsatte for 4 Mandsstemmer (1850)
- Ældre og nyere norske Fjeldmelodier (1853–1863)
- Halvhundrede Norske Fjeldmelodier harmoniserede for Mandsstemmer (1862)
- Melodier til Landstads Salmebog (1870)
- Norsk Messebog (1870)
- Melodier til Landstads Salmebog (1871–1875)
- Koralbog, indeholdende de i Landstads Salmebog forekommende Melodier (1878)
References
Other sources
- Gaukstad, Øystein L. M. Lindemans komposisjoner (1962)
- Gaukstad, Øystein Ludvig Mathias Lindemans samling av norske folkeviser og religiøse folketoner (Novus forlag. Oslo: 1997) ISBN 82-7099-273-9
External links
- Paul Maurice Glasoe. "A Singing Church". Norwegian - American Studies.
- Free scores by Ludvig Mathias Lindeman at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)