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KJERULF, HALFDAN (1815-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 843 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KJERULF, HALFDAN (1815-1868) , See also:Norwegian musical composer, the son of a high See also:government See also:official, was See also:born at See also:Christiania on the 15th of See also:September 1815. His See also:early See also:education was at Christiania University, for a legal career, and not till he was nearly 26—on the See also:death of his See also:father—was he able to devote him-self entirely to See also: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 See also:notice. Then, however, his Government paid for a See also:year's instruction for him at See also:Leipzig. For many years after his return to See also:Norway Kjerulf tried in vain to establish serial classical concerts, while he himself was working with See also:Bjornson and other writers at the See also:composition of lyrical songs. His fame rests almost entirely on his beautiful and manly See also:national See also:part-songs and solos; but his See also:pianoforte music is equally charming and See also:simple. Kjerulf died at Grefsen, on the 11th of See also:August 1868.

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