Karl Valentin

Swedish composer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroSwedish composer
PlacesSweden
wasMusician Composer
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Male
Birth30 May 1853, Gothenburg, Sweden
Death1 April 1918Lidingö, Sweden (aged 64 years)
Star signGemini
Awards
Litteris et Artibus1897
The details

Biography

Karl Valentin.

Karl Fritjof Valentin (30 May 1853 – 1 April 1918) was a Swedish composer.

Valentin was born in Gothenburg. He worked a few years for Julius Bagge in Stockholm. From 1879, he was a student at the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in Germany, where he defended his Ph.D. thesis Studien über die schwedischen Volksmelodien ("Studies on the Swedish Folk Melodies") in 1884. On 20 December 1897, he was elected member no. 492 of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Valentin was the Academy's secretary from 1901 to 1918. At the Academy, he taught music history and aesthetics from 1903 to 1918. In 1897, he was awarded the Litteris et Artibus.

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