Alfred Klingenberg (8 September 1867 - 20 April 1944), a Norwegian pianist and composer of great distinction, was the Eastman School of Music´s first director (1921–23). He was succeeded by composer Howard Hanson in 1924.[1] Klingenberg started the DKG Institute of Musical Art in Rochester 1912. This school would later become the Eastman School of Music. George Eastman bought the school from Klingenberg in 1919.[2] Klingenberg was a friend of Jean Sibelius, and secured the composer a position on the faculty during his directorship.[3]

Alf Klingenberg was the first cousin once removed of Trondheim mayor Odd Sverressøn Klingenberg, and nephew of engineer Johannes Benedictus Klingenberg.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Cohen, Allen Laurence. Howard Hanson in Theory and Practice (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004), p. 10.
  2. ↑ History of the Eastman School of Music, (accessed February 20, 2015).
  3. ↑ Grimley, Daniel M. Jean Sibelius and His World (Princeton University Press, 2004), p. 164.
  4. ↑ Halvdan Fredrik Klingenberg (1815 - 1887) - Genealogy (the father of Alf and brother of Johannes Benedictus; accessed April 22, 2015)
  5. ↑ "Klingenberg – Claus Andreas". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 22 November 2009.


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