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Svendsen

Johan Svendsen (1840–1911) was a Norwegian composer and conductor who studied in Leipzig before settling in Copenhagen as Royal Danish court conductor, a post he held for the final twenty-five years of his life during which he composed almost nothing. The bulk of his creative output belongs to an earlier span: four Norwegian Rhapsodies, two symphonies, a violin concerto, and a substantial body of chamber music. Of all of it, the Romance for Violin and Orchestra Op. 26 is the work that has travelled furthest and is most likely to be encountered in teaching and recital programmes today.

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