Torolf Voss
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| image = TorolfVoss (cropped).jpg
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| name = Torolf Voss
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1877|11|12|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1943|11|23|1877|11|12|mf=y}}
| resting_place=
| occupation = Conductor, composer
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| mother = Andrine Frogh Voss
| father = Johan Voss
| spouse = Signe Indahl-Voss
| children =
| relatives = Olav Voss, Tore Foss
}}
Torolf Voss (November 12, 1877 – November 23, 1943) was a Norwegian conductor and composer.{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Andersen |first1=Rune J. |title=Torolf Voss |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |year=2013 |url=https://snl.no/Torolf_Voss |language=Norwegian |accessdate=July 13, 2020}}{{cite journal |title=Den norske Komponist Torolf Voss |journal=Dansk musiktidsskrift |date=1943 |volume=18 |page=265}}
Family
Torolf Voss was the son of the schoolteacher Johan Voss (1834–1882) and Andrine Frogh Voss (1838–1909).{{cite book |title=Folketeljing 1900 for 0301 Kristiania kjøpstad |date=2015 |publisher=Registreringssentral for historiske data og Digitalarkivet - Arkivverket |location=Oslo |page=115 |url=http://xml.arkivverket.no/folketellinger/hefter/1900/03Oslo/f90301_Paulus.pdf |accessdate=July 14, 2020}} His elder brother Olav Voss (1864–1912) was an actor. His brother Johan Ejnar Voss (1868–1948) was a court lawyer and the father of the actor Tore Foss (1901–1968).{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Larsen |first1=Svend Erik Løken |title=Tore Foss |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |year=2009 |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Tore_Foss |language=Norwegian |accessdate=July 14, 2020}} Torolf Voss married the actress Signe Indahl (1890–1965) in 1921.{{cite book |last1=Gjesdahl |first1=Paul |title=Centralteatrets historie |date=1964 |publisher=Gyldendal |location=Oslo |page=66}}
Life and work
Voss studied at the Oslo Conservatory of Music and under the choral conductor and composer Iver Holter. He also studied at the conservatory in Berlin from 1897 to 1903. From 1900 to 1904 he was conductor of the Oslo Commercial Association Orchestra, which was established in 1841. After a year with an amusement park orchestra, from 1908 to 1929 he was the conductor at the Central Theater under theater director Harald Otto. In the fall of 1928, Voss resigned to become the conductor at the new Kinodromen cinema started by the company Oslo Kinematografer.{{cite news |title=Kinodromen åpner fredag |url=https://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/913795ef80ff3f27b6e02fb6fc003232?index=1#0 |accessdate=July 15, 2020 |work=Arbeiderbladet |issue=242 |date=September 5, 1928 |page=8}}{{cite news |title=Kapellmester Voss forlater Centraltheatret |work=Aftenposten |date=September 5, 1928}} Voss was a music critic for the newspaper Aftenposten from 1930 to 1935, as an alternate for David Monrad Johansen.{{cite news |title=Aftenpostens musikkanmeldere |work=Aftenposten |date=September 2, 1935}} The same year he became a knight of the Order of the Dannebrog. From 1935 until his death in 1943, he headed the sheet-music publisher Norsk Musikforlag.{{cite news |title=Torolf Voss død |work=Aftenposten |date=November 24, 1943}}{{cite news |title=Kapellmester Torolf Voss er død |url=https://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/24e81c47ba92e6ec3dc70294d8c86a21?index=1#0 |accessdate=July 15, 2020 |work=Finnmark Folkeblad |issue=236 |date=November 26, 1943 |page=2}}
Voss occasionally conducted for the Philharmonic Society Orchestra in Bergen and for the Stockholm Concert Society Orchestra. Voss also led the Norwegian Musical Artists' Society, established in 1912, and from 1917 via a group that broke off to become the Norwegian Composers' Association.{{cite book |last1=Steenstrup |first1=Bjørn |title=Hvem er Hvem? |date=1930 |publisher=H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard) |location=Oslo |page=441 |url=https://runeberg.org/hvemerhvem/1930/0441.html |access-date=July 16, 2020}} Voss composed many pieces, including an arrangement of the workers' song "Vi bygger landet" (We Are Building the Country) in 1935.{{cite book |last1=Voss |first1=Torolf |title=Vi Bygger Landet: Russisk mel. |date=1936 |publisher=Norsk Musikforlag |location=Oslo}}{{cite book |last1=Brekke |first1=Jon Egil |title=Trondhjems Arbeiderpartis Sangkor og Fagforeningenes Mannskor, Trondheim |date=1980 |publisher=Musikkvitskapleg Institutt |location=Trondheim |url=http://www.jonegilbrekke.no/ho/Kap4.html |accessdate=July 16, 2020 |format=Master's thesis}}
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