Østen Gottlieb Reimar Riefling (4 December 1898 – 22 May 1981) was a Norwegian

classical pianist A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz piano, jazz, blues piano, blues, and popular music, including rock music, ...

, pedagogist and music critic, a brother of pianist Robert Riefling. He made his concert debut in

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in 1922, and toured in Germany and Scandinavia. He was a piano lecturer at the in

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from 1925, later in Oslo where he chaired ' along with his brother Robert from 1941 to 1952, and from 1963 to 1973 at the Ingesund College of Music in Sweden.

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1898 births 1981 deaths Musicians from Oslo Norwegian music critics 20th-century Norwegian classical pianists {{classical-pianist-stub