Ole Andreas Lindeman

Ole Andreas Lindeman ( born January 17, 1769 in Surnadal, Norway, † February 26, 1857 in Trondhjem, now Trondheim, Norway ) was a Norwegian composer and organist.

Even as a 18- year-old student, he was the organist of the Frauenkirche ( Our Lady's Vår kirke ) in Trondheim. In 1789 he moved to Copenhagen to study law. Here he met among others Johann Abraham Peter Schulz and Israel Gottlieb Wernicke know. As a student of the latter he was inaugurated in an authentic Bach tradition, which went back to Johann Philipp KirnBerger. In 1799 he was back in Trondheim and accepted the position of organist of the Frauenkirche. This position he retained until his death. From the same year he organized in Trondheim numerous concerts with music by, for example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Christoph Willibald von Gluck. In addition, translated, he wrote and edited a considerable number of music-theoretical work, such as by KirnBerger. His students included a later pupil of Chopin, namely the Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen Trondheim pianist. He was the father of five sons, three of which were to follow in her father's footsteps and be active as organist. The most famous of these is Ludvig Mathias Lindeman.

The compositions Lindemans are for the most part simple dance movements that do not reflect his interest in the music of Bach. Of particular importance is his organ book from 1838, in which the search can be guessed by authentic Tonsätzen. Actually, he wanted to restore the original rhythmic form of originating from the Reformation hymns, but the resistance was too large and the existing tradition of song too.