Østen Gottlieb Reimar Riefling (4 December 1898 – 22 May 1981) was a Norwegian

classical pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

, pedagogist and music critic, a brother of pianist

Robert Riefling Robert Dankwart Leo Riefling (17 September 1911 – 1 July 1988) was a Norwegian classical pianist and pedagogist. He was regarded among Scandinavia's leading pianists, and toured all over the western world. He was a Professor in Copenhagen fro ...

. He made his concert debut in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

in 1922, and toured in Germany and Scandinavia. He was a piano lecturer at the in

Hannover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German States of Germany, state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germa ...

from 1925, later in Oslo where he chaired ' along with his brother Robert from 1941 to 1952, and from 1963 to 1973 at the

Ingesund College of Music Ingesund College of Music (Swedish: ''Musikhögskolan Ingesund'') is located in Arvika in the Swedish province of Värmland. It is the music department of Karlstad University. The college was founded in 1923 as a folk high school, run by a fou ...

in Sweden.

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1898 births 1981 deaths Musicians from Oslo Norwegian classical pianists Norwegian music critics 20th-century classical pianists {{classical-pianist-stub