Fredrikke Egeberg was a Norwegian pianist and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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Annichen Fredrikke Sophie Egeberg was born in Christiania

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 of parents Westye Egeberg

Westye Egeberg

Westye Egeberg was a Danish-Norwegian businessperson.He immigrated to Norway in 1786. In 1800 he founded the timber trade company Westye Egeberg & Co in Christiania, which became an important company and was passed on through generations...

 (1770–1830, a Danish immigrant) and Anna Sophie Muus (1775–1862). Her family was wealthy through her father's lumber company, and Egeberg was the youngest of nine children and the only daughter. She was a sister of Westye Martinus Egeberg and physician Christian Egeberg, and an aunt of Ferdinand Julian Egeberg

Ferdinand Julian Egeberg

Ferdinand Julian Egeberg was a Norwegian military officer, chamberlain and timber merchant. He is remembered for having founded the sports prize Egebergs Ærespris, which was regarded as the highest achievement in Norwegian sport.-Personal life:Egeberg was born in Moss as the son of merchant Peder...

, Einar Westye Egeberg, Sr.

Einar Westye Egeberg, Sr.

Einar Westye Egeberg, Sr. was a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Conservative Party.-Personal life:He was born in Kristiania as a son of Peder Cappelen Egeberg and Hanna Wilhelmine Scheel...

 and Theodor Christian Egeberg. Violinist Ole Bull

Ole Bull

Ole Bornemann Bull was a Norwegian violinist and composer.-Background:Bull was born in Bergen. He was the eldest of ten children of Johan Storm Bull and Anna Dorothea Borse Geelmuyden . His brother, Georg Andreas Bull became a noted Norwegian architect...

 was a friend of the family and often played at the family chamber music concerts. Egeberg's brother Christian became an accomplished amateur cellist

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

, her two nieces, Anna Egeberg and Fredrikke Lindboe became composers of songs and piano pieces.

Egeberg became an accomplished pianist, playing piano at Old Aker Church near the family property of Løkken and sometimes in concerts with the Musical Lyceum orchestra. After 1840, Egeberg was very productive as a composer, writing more than thirty songs and piano and choral works and achieving popularity in the 1850s. Fredrikke Egeberg lived on the farm Berg of Sem

Sem, Norway

Sem is a village in Tønsberg in Vestfold county, Norway.Sem was a former municipality in Vestfold. The parish of Sæm was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 . According to the 1835 census the municipality had a population of 3,590. On 1 January 1965 the district Stang with 126...

 in Vestfold

Vestfold

is a county in Norway, bordering Buskerud and Telemark. The county administration is in Tønsberg.Vestfold is located west of the Oslofjord, as the name indicates. It includes many smaller, but well-known towns in Norway, such as Larvik, Sandefjord, Tønsberg and Horten. The river Numedalslågen runs...

, where she died in 1861.

Works

Selected works include:

• 4 Kirkesange, 1850
• Norske Sange, ca. 1850
• Sex Sange uden Ord for klaver, ca. 1850
• Arioso og Springdans, 1851
• 3 Sange af Arne (text: B. Bjørnson), 1876