Jakob Hveding Sletten (4 December 1872 – 7 December 1936) was a Norwegian priest and musician.
He was born in
Høyland
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to parents who hailed from
Lindås
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.
The family moved to Lindås in 1882.
He
finished
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his secondary education in 1895, and graduated with the
cand.theol. degree in 1901. He was a
curate in
Stavanger Cathedral from 1902, then curate in the
Diocese of Nidaros
Nidaros is a diocese in the Lutheran Church of Norway. It covers Trøndelag county in Central Norway and its cathedral city is Trondheim, which houses the well-known Nidaros Cathedral. Since 10 September 2017, the Bishop of Nidaros is Herbor ...
from 1905. From 1909 to 1914 he was vicar in Vestnes, and in 1916 he was appointed curate in the
Diocese of Kristiania with special responsibility to hold ceremonies in
Nynorsk
Nynorsk () () is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano-N ...
.
[ His brother Klaus Sletten and nephew Vegard Sletten were both active in the Nynorsk movement.]Namdalseid
Namdalseid is a former municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020 when it joined Namsos Municipality. It was part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipa ...
, in September 1936.[
Sletten was also an accomplished ]choral music
A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which s ...
ian in his day. He was represented with eight tunes in ''Koralbok for den norske kirke'' in 1926, and with twelve tunes in Sven Moren's ''Songbok''. He also released his own work; ''Koralbok for det norske folk''.[
]
References
1872 births
1936 deaths
20th-century Norwegian Lutheran clergy
Norwegian musicians
Nynorsk
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