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Bjarne Brustad (4 March 1895 in Kristiania – 20 May 1978 in Oslo) was a Norwegian composer, violinist and violist. He played with symphonic orchestras in Stavanger and Oslo. In the 1920s he travelled to European cities such as Paris, Munich and Berlin, where he received musical inspiration and contacts. From 1928 to 1943, Brustad was viola soloist with Philharmonic Society Orchestra in Oslo.[1] He wrote symphonies, compositions for violin and orchestra, chamber music and opera.[2] His opera Atlantis was finished in 1945.[3] After World War II he was also active in organizing work.[2]

Selected works

  • Norsk Suite (Norwegian Suite) for viola and piano (1926)
  • Capricci for violin and viola (1931)
  • Partita for viola solo (1931, revised 1957)
  • Concertino for viola and chamber orchestra (1932)

References

  1. ^ Music Information Centre Norway
  2. ^ a b Nesheim, Elef. "Bjarne Brustad". in Helle, Knut (in Norwegian). Norsk biografisk leksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Bjarne_Brustad/utdypning. Retrieved 9 Januyary 2010.  
  3. ^ Græsvold, Hans Magne; Edvardsen, Sverre. "Bjarne Brustad". in Henriksen, Petter (in Norwegian). Store norske leksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. http://www.snl.no/Bjarne_Brustad. Retrieved 9 January October 2010.  

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Bjarne Brustad (March 4 1895 - May 20 1978) was a Norwegian violinist, composer and teacher.

He studied composition and violin at Musikkonservatoriet (the Music Conservatory) in Oslo from 1907 to 1912, and also in Berlin, where his teachers included Emil Telmanyi, and Carl Flesch. He made his debut as a violinist in Oslo in 1914, and for many years he played the violin and viola with the Philharmonic Society Orchestra in the Norwegian capital; from 1928 to 1943 he was solo-viola player with this orchestra. From 1937 to 1961, Brustad was employed as a teacher of composition at Musikkonservatoriet.

Brustad was always alert to trends and happenings in the musical world at large, and he was one of the first Norwegian to embrace impressionism. In the 1930s he was to some extent taken up with Norwegian folklore and neo-classisism. Eventyrsuite of 1932 is his most famous work from this period. Around 1950 he radicalised his tone language, stopping short, however, of becoming an atonalist. Since the mid-1960s he tended to forsake such experimentation, and his latest compositions are all endowed simply with musicality; they are, he said, "music for ordinary people".


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