Born in Christiania [now Oslo], April 15, 1868
Died in Oslo, April 6, 1950
- Lund was a Norwegian composer who studied music in Christiana, Berlin, Copenhagen and Paris.1
- Lund was encouraged by Edvard Grieg early in her career.2
- Around 1901, the London Times described Lund as “The most interesting composer of the younger Scandinavian school.”3
- I found that quotation in a 1901 profile in the English magazine The Sketch, which also discussed her mentorship from Edvard Grieg, called her “the latest Parisian beauty,” and detailed her love of creating soup recipes. All in all, an interesting example of turn-of-the-century attitudes toward women composers.
- Lund taught in Norway and the United States; she was based in Chicago from 1902-1920, and in addition to composing, she lectured frequently on Norwegian topics.4
- Lund helped found the Norwegian Composers Association in 1917.5
- Lund was outspoken about her political opinions, and her support for Adolf Hitler and the Norwegian Nazi party more or less destroyed her reputation in the United States by the 1940s. (In 1943 she wrote a string quartet celebrating the 10th anniversity of the Norwegian Nazi party.)38
Biography from music publisher Bergmann Edition
Sources
- Kari Michelsen, “Lund, Signe,” Grove Music Online (April 19, 2004), accesed January 20, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000054045.
- Lionel Carley, Edvard Grieg in England (UK: Boydell Press, 2006), 304.
- Quoted in The Sketch, Vol. 35 (August 7, 1901), 97.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.