Ludvig Norman

Ludvig Norman ( born August 28, 1831 in Stockholm, † March 28, 1885 in Stockholm) was a Swedish composer, conductor, pianist and music teacher. He counts next to Franz Berwald and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad of the most important Swedish Symphony Orchestra of the 19th Century.

Norman received his first training at Lindblad and studied from 1848 to 1852 at the Conservatory in Leipzig, where he also met Robert Schumann. Since 1857, he taught at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm. In 1860 he became conductor of the Nya harmoniska Sällskapet 1861 opera conductor. In 1864 he married the violinist Wilhelmine Neruda. Their son Ludwig Norman Neruda was a famous mountaineer, who died in the Dolomites in 1898 as the result of a fall. From 1881 he conducted the choir concerts of Musikvorenigen.

Norman wrote next to chamber music in a different occupation four symphonies, four overtures, four stage music and cantatas, as well as a large number of songs and choruses.

• Composer ( romance )
• Swedish composer
• Swedish Musician
• Classic pianist
• Man
• Born in 1831
• Died in 1885
• High school teacher ( Royal Swedish Academy of Music)
• Music ( Stockholm )