Alf Klingenberg

Alfred "Alf" Klingenberg (8 September 1867 - 20 April 1944), a Norwegian pianist of great distinction, and also a composer, was the Eastman School of Music´s first director (1921–23). He was succeeded by composer Howard Hanson in 1924.^[1] Klingenberg started the DKG Institute of Musical Art in Rochester 1912. This School would later become the Eastman School of Music. George Eastman bought the school from Klingenberg in 1919.^[2] Klingenberg was a friend of Jean Sibelius, and secured the composer a position on the faculty during his directorship.^[3]

Alf Klingenberg was the first cousin once removed of Trondheim mayor Odd Sverressøn Klingenberg, and nephew of engineer Johannes Benedictus Klingenberg.^[4][5]

References

1. Cohen, Allen Laurence. Howard Hanson in Theory and Practice (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004), p. 10.
2. History of the Eastman School of Music, (accessed February 20, 2015).
3. Grimley, Daniel M. Jean Sibelius and His World (Princeton University Press, 2004), p. 164.
4. Halvdan Fredrik Klingenberg (1815 - 1887) - Genealogy (the father of Alf and brother of Johannes Benedictus; accessed April 22, 2015)
5. "Klingenberg – Claus Andreas". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 22 November 2009.