Which famous people have you outlived?

Johan Severin Svendsen

Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist

Died when: 70 years 257 days (848 months)
Star Sign: Libra

 

Johan Severin Svendsen

Johan Severin Svendsen (30 September 1840 – 14 June 1911) was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. Born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, he lived most his life in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Svendsen's output includes two symphonies, a violin concerto, a cello concerto, and the Romance for violin, as well as a number of Norwegian Rhapsodies for orchestra.

At one time Svendsen was an intimate friend of the German composer Richard Wagner.


Related People

Johan Halvorsen
Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist
Johann Joseph Abert
Composer, conductor
Eduard Lassen
Composer, conductor
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License