Background
Ludvig Mathias Lindeman was born in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.
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Ludvig Mathias Lindeman was born in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.
In 1833 he was sent to Oslo to take his final exams and then studied theology at the university.
He is most noted for compiling Norwegian folk music in his work Ældre og nyere norske Fjeldmelodier. He was the seventh of ten children born to Ole Andreas Lindeman (1769–1857) and Anna Severine Hickmann (1782–1844). Lindeman was in the position for 48 years until his death in 1887.
Lindeman was a contributor to Jørgen Moe"s song and folk-ballad collection, Samling af Sange, Folkeviser og Stev i norske Alumuedialekter (1840), putting together the melody supplement to the volume at Bishop Moe"s request.
The following year, he published an his own selection of Norwegian folk melodies. In 1848, he applied for a university grant to support a trip in the hill country in order to recorded folk melodies.
Later he made two collecting trips, in 1851 and 1864. The first trip was to Telemark, Hardanger, Bergen and Hallingdal and the last to Lillehammer.
In all, he collected about 3,000 melodies and lyrics.
He published Ældre og nyere norske Fjeldmelodier "Earlier and more recent Norwegian mountain melodies," in twelve-volumes during 1853–1863. This first edition contained 540 melodies, but Lindeman supplemented the corpus with Halvhundrede norske Fjeldmelodier ("Fifty Norwegian maountain melodies," 1862). When in 1871, the major new organ in the Royal Albert Hall in London was inaugurated, Lindeman was invited to perform, along with other noted organists including Anton Bruckner and Camille Saint-Saëns.
In 1873, he was invited to write music for the coronation in Trondheim of King Oscar II of Sweden and Queen Sophie.
In 1876, he wrote a cantata for the inauguration of Bygdøy chapel. The Conservatory was in operation until 1973, when the Norwegian Academy of Music was established.
To honour the memory of the Lindeman family the biggest concert hall at the Academy is named the Lindeman Hall. Ludvig Mathias Lindeman died in Oslo at 75 years of age.
He was buried at Oslo Cathedral.
In 1912, a bust of Lindeman was erected at the church.