Svendsen, JOHAN SEVERIN, composer, born at Christiania, 30th September 1840. He studied at Leipzig, Paris, and in Italy, conducted concerts in his native town, and in 1883 became master of the Chapel Royal at Copenhagen. His works comprise symphonies, an overture, and quartetts, quintetts, and concertos for strings.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 825
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