Michael Flagstad (4 February 1869 – 1 December 1930) was a
Norwegian musician and conductor from
Hamar
Hamar is a List of cities in Norway, town in Hamar Municipality in Innlandet Counties of Norway, county, Norway. Hamar is the administrative centre of Hamar Municipality. It is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Hedmarken. ...
.
Biography
Flagstad studied violin with
Gudbrand Bøhn, and he was the conductor at the
Central Theater[Vogt, Howard. 1987. ''Flagstad: Singer of the Century''. London: Secker and Warburg.] from 1901 to 1909 and at the
Norwegian Theater from 1912 to 1917. He was a founder and board member of the Norwegian Musicians' Union (''Norsk Musikerforbund''), which was established in 1911. He also translated numerous opera librettos into Norwegian.
Michael Flagstad was married to the pianist
Maja Flagstad and was the father of the singer
Kirsten Flagstad
Kirsten Malfrid Flagstad (12 July 1895 – 7 December 1962) was a Norwegian opera singer, who was the outstanding Wagnerian soprano of her era. Her triumphant debut in New York on 2 February 1935 is one of the legends of opera. Giulio Gatti-Casaz ...
, conductor Ole Flagstad, pianist Lasse Flagstad, and singer
Karen-Marie Flagstad.
[Rothe, Anna (ed.). 1987. ''Current Biography Yearbook''. New York: H. W. Wilson, p. 204.] They moved from Hamar to
Oslo
Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...
, where they settled in
Vinderen
Vinderen is a neighbourhood in the Vestre Aker borough of Oslo, Norway. It was a separate borough until 1 January 2004, when it was incorporated into the newly established borough of Vestre Aker.
Its amenities include Vinderen (station), Vinderen ...
around 1900.
References
External links
Photos of Michael Flagstad at DigitaltMuseum
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Norwegian male conductors (music)
Musicians from Hamar
1869 births
1930 deaths
19th-century conductors (music)
19th-century Norwegian violinists
Norwegian male violinists
20th-century Norwegian conductors (music)
20th-century Norwegian violinists
20th-century Norwegian male musicians