Fredrikke Amalie Holtemann Rynning Waaler (7 May 1865 – 2 February 1952) was a Norwegian composer, violinist, and proponent for women's rights. Waaler was born in

Eidsvoll Eidsvoll (; sometimes written as ''Eidsvold'') is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike Districts of Norway, traditional region. The administrative centre of the munic ...

to Paul Emil Rynning and Anne Margrethe Holtermann. She married physician Peder Ferdinand Waaler had three sons,

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and

Erik Waaler Erik Waaler (22 February 1903 – 3 March 1997) was a Norwegian professor of medicine. He was born in Hamar as a son of physician Per Waaler (1866–1923) and musician Fredrikke Amalie Holtemann Rynning (1865–1952). He was a brother of Georg ...

. She studied violin with F. Ursin and G. Boehn, and theory with

Ludvig Mathias Lindeman Ludvig Mathias Lindeman (28 November 1812 – 11 March 1887) was a Norwegian composer and organist. He is most noted for compiling Norwegian folk music in his work ''Ældre og nyere norske Fjeldmelodier''. Background Ludvig Mathias Lindeman was ...

and Johannes Haarklou. Waaler played first violin in the Oslo Musikforening orchestra in 1885. She founded and led the first orchestra in

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in 1893, while also conducting a choir there. Among her contributions was a tribute song to the city of Hamar. Her compositions, all for voice, include: *''Blomstersange'' (voice and piano) *''Hamarsanger'', opus 7 (mixed chorus) *''Spinnersken'' (voice and piano; text by

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished ...

) *songs

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