Eline Nygaard Riisnæs (5 July 1913 – 3 February 2011) was a Norwegian pianist and musicologist at

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, mother of the pianist and piano pedagog

Anne Eline Riisnæs Anne Eline Riisnæs (born 15 April 1951) is a Norwegian pianist and piano pedagog. Early life Riisnæs was born in Oslo. Her mother was Eline Nygaard Riisnæs, a pianist. Riisnæs's brothers are Knut Riisnæs (1945–2023), a jazz saxophonist ...

(1951-), and the saxophonists Knut Riisnæs (1945-) and

Odd Riisnæs Odd Riisnæs (born 12 May 1953) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) and composer. He was born in Oslo, Norway, the son of pianist Eline Nygaard Riisnæs and the younger brother of jazz saxophonist Knut Riisnæs. He is known from a series of ...

(1953-).

Career

Nygaard Riisnæs was born in Sandefjord. She studied piano in Oslo with pianists Dagmar Walle-Hansen and Nils Larsen, and in

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with the great Russian pianist Simon Barrere. She debuted in 1939 and played the year after with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1949 she toured the United States with among others

Kari Frisell Kari Frisell (20 August 1922 – 3 June 2022) was a Norwegian operatic soprano and pedagogue. Musical career Frisell studied under in Oslo, and further in Vienna and New York. She made her concert debut in Oslo in 1946. In 1946 she also perform ...

. In Norway she had extensive concert collaboration with NRK. She taught

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at University of Oslo, and was attached to the University as a lecturer in 1971, associate professor from 1981 to 1983. She died in Oslo, aged 97.

Honors

*"Lindemanprisen" 1979 * Kongens fortjenstmedalje i gull (1983)

References

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* 1913 births 2011 deaths Musicians from Sandefjord Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian women pianists Norwegian musicologists Women musicologists Norwegian women academics 20th-century pianists Women classical pianists 20th-century Norwegian women 20th-century women pianists {{Norway-musician-stub