Halfdan Kjerulf

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Halfdan Kjerulf (born September 15, 1815 in Christiania, Norway; died August 11, 1868 in Grefsen) was a Norwegian musical composer.

He was the son of a high government official. His early education was at Christiania University, for a legal career, and not until he was nearly 26 on the death of his father was he able to devote himself entirely to music. As a fact, he actually started on his career as a music teacher and composer of songs before ever having seriously studied music at all, and not for ten years did he attract any particular notice. Then, however, his Government paid for a year's instruction for him at Leipzig. For many years after his return to Norway Kjerulf tried in vain to establish serial classical concerts, while he himself was working with Bjørnson and other writers at the composition of lyrical songs. His fame rests almost entirely on his beautiful and manly national partsongs and solos; but his pianoforte music is equally charming and simple.

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