Picture of Borghild Holmsen with her signature

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,[1] 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.[2][3]

Works

Selected works include:

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

References

  1. ↑ Aftenposten, 1 March 1890, p. 3, retrieved 12 June 2015
  2. ↑ "Borghild Holmsen". Archived from the original on January 29, 2008. Retrieved 23 May 2013. (Archive from 29 January 2008).
  3. ↑ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The New Grove dictionary of women composers.


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