Career
He lived some time in Germany. Some examples on his output as a composer are piano concertos, other piano works, and some chamber music He was described as a child prodigy.
Throughout his early childhood he was tutored with a firm hand by his father, the organist Andreas Klewe.
A child prodigy, he made his first appearances on the concert stage at the age of five. The strictness of his training is exemplified by the fact that he was not allowed to play anything other than the works of Johann Sebastian Bach until he was sixteen! Halfdan Cleve composed five piano concertos, a violin sonata, a piano quintet, songs with orchestral accompaniment and over one hundred piano pieces.
