Kari Marie Aarvold Glaser

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{{short description|Norwegian pianist and music teacher (1901–1972)}}

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| birth_place = Kristiania, Norway

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| death_place = Oslo, Norway

| origin = Norway

| instrument = Piano

| genre = Classical

| occupation = Musician, music teacher

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Kari Marie Aarvold Glaser (4 January 1901 – 3 October 1972) was a Norwegian pianist and music teacher, who was married to the violinist Ernst Glaser, and the mother of pianist Liv Glaser.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Kari Marie Aarvold Glaser |first= |last= |encyclopedia=Store Norske Leksikon |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://snl.no/Kari_Marie_Aarvold_Glaser |language=no |date=14 February 2009 |accessdate=2013-07-31}}

Early and personal life

Kari Marie Aarvold was born in Kristiania (now Oslo) on 4 January 1901 to Mimi Kindblad (1876–1968) and bailiff Jens Aarvold (1856–1927).{{cite encyclopedia|last=Kortsen |first=Bjarne|title=Ernst Glaser|url=https://nbl.snl.no/Ernst_Glaser |encyclopedia=Norsk Biografisk Leksikon|access-date=13 April 2025|language=no}} She studied with Niels Larsen in Oslo, Leonid Kreutzer in Berlin from 1921 to 1923, and with P Weingarten in Vienna between 1924 and 1926.{{cite book |title=Sohlmans musiklexikon |date=1975 |publisher=Sohlmans Förlag |location=Stockholm |page=131 |url=https://archive.org/details/sohlmansmusiklex0000unse/page/130/mode/2up |language=sv}}{{cite news |title=Elitekonsert lørdag. Ernst Glaser og Kari Aarvold Glaser |url=https://www.nb.no/items/aae18a279f0cf1af5f067d3f1f79dda4?page=1 |work=Fjell-Ljom |date=5 November 1952 |location=Røros |page=3 |language=no}} She met violinist Ernst Glaser in 1928 after he moved to Oslo to join the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. They later married a year later and had two daughters, including pianist Liv Glaser.{{cite web |last1=Bugge |first1=Erle Moestue |title=40 søskenår ingen hindring |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/musikk/40-soskenar-ingen-hindring-6319394.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062551/http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/musikk/40-soskenar-ingen-hindring-6319394.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |language=no |date=19 October 2011 |url-status=dead}}{{cite book |title=Internationale Wissenschaftskommunikation und Nationalsozialismus - Akademischer Austausch, Konferenzen und Reisen in Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften 1933 bis 1945 |date=2022 |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=9783110732283 |pages=423-424 |url=https://archive.org/details/oapen-20.500.12657-53706/page/423/mode/2up |language=de}}

Career

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Aarvold Glaser made her concert debut in 1921 in Kristiania and became known as a performing pianist and piano teacher. The year after her debut, she performed a Liszt concerto in Berlin with the Philharmonic orchestra, conducted by Kreutzer.{{cite magazine|date=21 October 1921|title=Berlin, Oct 3. |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_musical-america_1922-10-21_36_26/page/174/mode/2up|magazine=Musical America |location= |publisher=Musical America Publications|volume=36|issue=26}} During her career, she held numerous concerts, both in Norway and abroad. In 1926, alongside tenor Chester Watson, she performed a concert at Chickering Hall.{{cite news |title=Norwegian pianist to present program |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_los-angeles-times_the-los-angeles-times_1926-11-07/page/22/mode/2up |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=7 November 1926 |page=22}}

After the German occupation of Norway, Aarvold Glaser's husband Ernst, who was Jewish, started to become the target of anti-Semitic attacks which led him to flee to Sweden in November 1942. Kari and her daughters then fled Norway a few days later to join him and she managed to continue with her music career whilst in Sweden.

She frequently performed with her husband and was also a soloist at the Sandefjord Orkesterforening.{{cite book |last1=Endresen |first1=Odd |title=Sandefjord orkesterforening : glimt fra orkesterets historie |date=2022 |publisher=Sandar historielag |location=Sandefjord |page=5 |url=https://www.nb.no/items/1fa4c245648e4f86dc885717fbf262d0?page=3 |language=no}}

Death

Aarvold Glaser died on 3 October 1972 in Oslo, at the age of 71.

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