Borghild Holmsen Explained

Borghild Holmsen (22 October 1865 – 4 December 1938) was a Norwegian pianist, music critic and composer.

Borghild Holmsen was born in Kråkstad (now Ski), Akershus, Norway. When she was 7 years old, her family settled in Christiania (now Oslo). She studied piano with Agathe Backer-Grøndahl and Otto Winter-Hjelm, and continued her studies with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig and Albert Becker in Berlin.

She made her debut in 1890 in Christiania, afterward touring as a concert pianist in Europe and the United States. After ending her concert career, she became a teacher at the Bergen Music Conservatory, where Harald Sæverud was one of her pupils. She wrote as a music critic for the newspapers, Bergens Aftenblad and Bergens Arbeiderblad.^{[1] [2]}

Works

Selected works include:

• Violin Sonata, Op. 10
• Barcarolle, Op.1, No. 1
• Scherzo, Op. 1, No. 2

Notes and References

1. Web site: Borghild Holmsen . 23 May 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080129174535/http://www.bergen.folkebibl.no/musikk/musikk_holmsen.html . January 29, 2008 . (Archive from 29 January 2008).
2. Book: Sadie, Julie Anne. The New Grove dictionary of women composers. Rhian. Samuel. 1994.