Ludvig Norman

Ludvig Norman (August 28, 1831, Stockholm - March 28, 1885, Stockholm) was a Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, and music teacher. Together with Franz Berwald and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, he ranks among the most important Swedish symphonists of the 19th century.

Norman began his musical training with Lindblad and later studied at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1848 to 1852, where he also made the acquaintance of Robert Schumann. Starting in 1857, he taught at the Royal Music Academy of Stockholm. In 1860, he became the conductor of the Nya harmoniska sällskapet and obtained the post of Kapellmeister at the Royal Swedish Opera the following year. After 1881, he conducted the choral concerts of the Musikvorenigen. He was married to the noted violinist Wilma Neruda.

Norman composed in a wide variety of genres, including four symphonies, four overtures, four sets of incidental music for plays, cantatas, and chamber music, as well as a great number of lieder and songs for choir.

He was the dedicatee of Woldemar Bargiel's octet for strings. [cite web|title=Notes to Recording of Bargiel and Mendelssohn Octets|publisher=Hyperion Records
url=http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/55043.html|accessdate=2008-05-11|date=1989]

elected works

Orchestra
* Symphony No.1 in F Major, Op.22 (1857)
* Symphony No.2 in Emusic|flat Major, Op.40 (1871)
* Symphony No.3 in D Minor, Op.58 (1881)
* Concert Overture in Emusic|flat Major, Op.21 (1856)
* Overture to Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra", Op.57 (1881)
* Festive Overture in C Major, Op.60 (1882)

Chamber music
* Piano Quartet, Op.10
* Sonata in G Minor for Viola and Piano, Op.32
* String Octet in C Major, Op.30
* String Quartet No.1 in Emusic|flat Major (1848)
* String Quartet No.2 in E Major, Op.20 (1855)
* String Quartet No.3 in D Minor, Op.24 (1858)
* String Quartet No.4 in C Major, Op.41 (between 1871 and 1883)
* String Quartet No.5 in A Minor, Op.65 (1884)
* String Quintet in C Minor, Op.35

References