Halfdan Cleve born Halfdan Klewe was a Norwegian composer, and father or the pianist and composer Cissi Cleve.
Olav Anton Thommessen is a Norwegian contemporary composer who has been one of the foremost modernist composers in Norway since the 1970s. His main compositions include Et glassperlespill and Gjennom Prisme. He was a professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music until retiring in 2014, and has also been an influential figure in music education and music organisations in Norway. Thommessen has played a significant role in aesthetic discourse in Norway and is known for his modernist and atonal stance. In later life he has become known for engaging in a critical public dialogue with his former student Marcus Paus about the future of art music, that has resulted in the opera monologue The Teacher Who Was Not To Be with a libretto by Thommessen; a 2015 debate between the two was described as "the biggest public debate about art music" in Norway since the 1970s.
Petter Jakob Bjerve was a Norwegian economist, statistician and politician for the Labour Party. Prominent positions include director of Statistics Norway from 1949 to 1980, Norwegian Minister of Finance from 1960 to 1963, and president of the International Statistical Institute from 1971 to 1975.
Ole Edvard Antonsen is a Norwegian trumpeter, musician and conductor.
Bergen International Festival is an annual international music and cultural festival in Bergen, Norway.
Knut Helle was a Norwegian historian. A professor at the University of Bergen from 1973 to 2000, he specialized in the late medieval history of Norway. He has contributed to several large works.
Finn Einar Mortensen was a Norwegian composer, critic and educator.
Yngve Slettholm is a Norwegian cultural executive, politician for the Christian Democratic Party and Salvationist.
Sigurd Lunde was a Norwegian theologian, teacher, author, broadcaster, and Bishop of the Diocese of Stavanger. Lunde also wrote music and lyrics to hymns and psalms. He was the father of news anchor Einar Lunde.
Egil Kraggerud is a Norwegian philologist.
Birger Fredrik Sinding-Larsen was a Norwegian military officer.
Kirsten Sinding-Larsen was a Norwegian architect.
Kristofer Andreas Lange Sinding-Larsen was a Norwegian painter.
Einar Hoffstad was a Norwegian encyclopedist, newspaper editor, writer and economist. He remains best known as the editor of the encyclopedia Merkantilt biografisk leksikon and the business periodical Farmand. Although initially a classic liberal, Hoffstad embraced fascism and collectivism at the beginning of the Second World War.
Events in the year 1664 in Norway.
Terje Tønnesen is a Norwegian classical violinist. His first marriage, from 1979 to 1986, was to the pianist Reidun Askeland. In 1986 he married the actress Hilde Grythe, daughter of NRK program host Odd Grythe (1918–94) and film director Kirsten Sørlie (1926–2013).
Einar "Pastor'n" Iversen was a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer and the son of a "pastor." He went into jazz after World War II ended. For more than sixty years, he played with everyone in Norwegian jazz.
The Oslo Conservatory of Music was a music school in Oslo, Norway.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1996 in Norwegian music.
Smebye is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
