Composer Agathe Backer-Grondahl

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Agathe Backer-Grondahl

Living place: Norway

Birthday: 1-12-1847

Global rank: #58271

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Who is Composer Agathe Backer-Grondahl?
Known for her contributions to the golden age of Norwegian music and for the many future pianists she taught. Her work initially adhered to 1850s pianistic ideals and European styles, but as the 20th century approached, she began to adopt a dramatic approach, giving her her first Norwegian impressions.
She was announced as one of the greatest pianists of the 19th century by music critic and writer George Bernard Shaw.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She studied with Theodor Kullak from 1865 to 1867 and with Richard Wuerst in Berlin at der Akademie Tonkunst.

Family life info

She was married in 1875 to singing teacher and lead Olaus Andreas Grondahl. Her son Fridtjof Backer-Grondahl became a pianist and composer.

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She achieved acclaim while in Berlin for the owner of her "Emperor" Concerto Ludwig van Beethoven.

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When was Composer Agathe Backer-Grondahl born?
Agathe Backer-Grondahl was born in 1-12-1847, death year is , at the age of 177.
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Agathe Backer-Grondahl was born in . is a Composer, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Agathe Backer-Grondahl's global rank is 58271 and whose rank is 441 in list of famous Composer.
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Events in 1847 and 1-12

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  • Day 1-12 year 1824: The presidential election between John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford, and Henry Clay was turned over to the House of Representatives due to the lack of an electoral-vote majority.
  • Day 1-12 year 1887: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes appeared for the first time in print in the story "A Study in Scarlet."
  • Day 1-12 year 1955: Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her front-section bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala.
  • Day 1-12 year 1959: Twelve nations, including the United States, signed a treaty setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve free from military activity.
  • Day 1-12 year 1997: Representatives from more than 150 countries gathered at a global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan, and over the course of ten days forged an agreement to control the emission of greenhouse gases. President Bush pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.
  • Day 1-12 year 1998: Exxon and Mobil agreed to merge, creating the world's largest corporation.
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