Tone Alis Groven Holmboe (born 9 January 1930) is a Norwegian

Norway

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 composer and teacher.

Personal life

She is the second daughter of 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...

 and innovator

Innovator

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 Eivind Groven

Eivind Groven

Eivind Groven was a Norwegian microtonal composer and music-theorist. He was from Telemark and had his background in the folk music of the area.- Biography :...

, and teacher and singer Ragna Groven.

She is married to Adler Holmboe (born 1923) of the Holmboe family

Holmboe (family)

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, and they have three children, Ragnhild (1955), Kristin (1959) and Thorolf (1967).

Works and musical style

She composes in a classical idiom, with strong flavours of Norwegian folk music. The music is fully tonal and structurally simple, yet with attention to small rhythmic and harmonic details and variations. Her melodic sense is very strong, and the bulk of her work is indeed songs, mostly for voice and piano (ca. 100). She has written a number of chamber musical duets and solos, most notably Syv slåtter og impresjoner for piano solo ("Seven Dances and Impressions for Piano Solo").

Performances and recordings

Her music has been regularly broadcast on Norwegian radio, and is represented on various recordings by other artists. On her seventieth birthday, she released her first CD as a composer, named Tonebilder ("tone paintings") (2000), with performances by Rolf Erik Nystrøm, alto and soprano saxophones, her cousin Sigmund Groven

Sigmund Groven

Sigmund Groven is a Norwegian classical harmonica player, today considered one of the world's leading classical harmonica players. He plays with a large number of the world's leading musicians and orchestras, and he has made about 22 recordings yet in his own name...

, harmonica, and 10 other performers, amongst them her three children. One track from this recording was used on the soundtrack of the popular Norwegian movie Elling

Elling

Elling is a Norwegian film directed by Petter Næss. Shot mostly in and around the Norwegian capital Oslo, the film, which was released in 2001, is primarily based on Ingvar Ambjørnsen's novel Brødre i blodet , one of a series of four featuring the Elling character – the others are Utsikt til...

(2001).

External links

• tonebilder.no Tone Groven Holmboe official home page in English
• Sheet music of works by Tone Groven Holmboe