Published: 30. January 2008
The Norwegian Academy Of Music was established in 1973. Before that time higher education in the field of musical performance and related areas was handled by private music conservatories in the major cities. Foremost of these was the Music Conservatory of Oslo which was founded and run by the Lindeman family.
 Dei grunnla Musikkhøgskolen:
Ole Andreas Lindeman (1769-1857) studerte med Wernicke i København og kom seinare som organist og musikklærar til Trondheim. Ein meiner det var han som fekk Bach-tradisjonen til Noreg. Sonen hans, Ludvig Mathias Lindeman (1812-87), var organist, komponist, folkemusikksamlar og musikkpedagog. Saman med sonen sin Peter Lindeman (1858-1930), starta han i 1883 Organistskolen i Christiania som er grunnlaget for Noregs musikkhøgskole. Fjerde generasjon var Trygve Lindeman (1896-1979) som overtok leiinga av Musikkonservatoriet i 1930. Han skreiv bl.a. lærebøker i musikkteori, høyrelære og kordirigering. Det som blir kalla Lindeman-tradisjonen i norsk musikk bærer preg av å ville ta vare på og vidareføre musikk som har røter i norsk tradisjon, samtidig som den er søkjande og open for internasjonale tendensar. Tradisjonen særpregast og av tru på at alle menneske har musikalske evner, og at det er viktig at dei får utfordringar og mogligheiter til å utvikle seg. |
Ludvig Mathias and his son, Peter Brynie Lindeman, started a school for organists in Oslo in 1883. Their intention was to improve the educational possibilities for organists in the Lutheran Church of Norway and to further their professional interests. However, their initiative was met with such enthusiasm that after some few years the organists' school developed into a fully fledged music conservatory.
The financial resources were, however, very limited, and that hampered in many ways the development of the conservatory. Members of the Lindeman family felt that music education, as education in other fields, should be paid for by the state. This was the only way to secure a stable and substantial financial backing for an educational programme.
Several times they offered the Music Conservatory of Oslo to the government of Norway - even as a gift - but they did not succeed in their endeavours. However, as teachers and organizers of music education they were very successful, and a majority of the musicians working in Norway from the last decade of the 19th century and towards the last part of the 20th century were trained at the Music Conservatory of Oslo.
When the Norwegian Academy Of Music was founded, the Music Conservatory of Oslo closed down its activities. Most of the faculty members of the Music Conservatory were hired by the newly founded Academy, which also took over the buildings and other facilities of the Music Conservatory.
It was apparent that the new Academy needed more space in order to cope with the challenges which a modern institution meets, and in 1989 the Academy moved into new facilities at Majorstua in Oslo with two concert halls, a modern library and ample office space for faculty members. More than a hundred years after the Lindeman family started their school for organists, their dream of a well equipped school of music on a university level came true.
Early in 2007 the Academy expanded into new purpose-built premises with over 3000 sq.m. of teaching rooms, practice rooms and an auditorium with seating for 100 people. Much of the new building is specially designed for jazz and amplified music, and is among the best equipped facilities of its kind in Europe.
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