Signe Lund-Skabo was a Norwegian

Norwegians

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 composer.

Life

Signe Lund was born in Christiana

Christiana

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, Norway

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, the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Henrik Louis Bull Lund (1838–1891) and pianist and composer Birgitte Charlotte Carlsen (1843–1913}, and the sister of artist Henrik Lund

Henrik Lund (painter)

Henrik Louis Lund was a Norwegian painter and graphic artist.He was born in Bergen as a son of lieutenant colonel Henrik Louis Bull Lund and pianist Birgitte Charlotte Carlsen . His sister was composer Signe Lund. He spent much of his young days at sea, and probably had a naval career in mind...

. She studied with Erika Nilsson, Per Winge

Per Winge

Per Winge was a Norwegian conductor, pianist and composer, known primarily for his vocal works.Born in Christiania, he studied with Edmund Neupert, Johan Svendsen and Otto Winter-Hjelm...

 and Iver Holter

Iver Holter

Iver Paul Fredrik Holter was a Norwegian composer. He was conductor and music director of the Oslo Philharmonic for a quarter century....

 at the Conservatory in Christiana. Later she studied in Berlin

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 with Wilhelm Berger

Wilhelm Berger

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 and also in Copenhagen

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 and Paris

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. After completing her studies she worked as a teacher in Norway. She married Jørgen Skabo and later French architect George Robards.

Lund emigrated to the United States

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 about 1900 and took a position teaching at Maryville State Normal School. She became active in the North Dakota

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 Socialist party and Non-Partisan League and circulated petitions for the release of anti-war activist Kate Richards O'Hare

Kate Richards O'Hare

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 from state prison in Missouri

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, which led to her dismissal from the Maryville teaching position. She worked in New York

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 and Chicago

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 as a performer and lecturer until 1920. Lund received the King's Medal of Merit for contributions to strengthening of the relationship between the United States and Norway, but lost her U.S. citizenship after World War II

World War II

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 and returned to Norway. She died in Oslo

Oslo

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.

Works

Lund composed a number of powerful works. Selected compositions include:

• Valse de Concert Op.40
• The Road to France, march (1917)
• Legende
• Norske Smaastubber
• Wahrhaftig (Et sandt Ord), op. 28 no. 1 (Text: Heinrich Heine)