Otto Winter Hjelm

(Oslo Museum, Byhistorisk samling) Otto Winter-Hjelm (8 October 1837 – 3 May 1931) was a Norwegian musician, conductor, writer, composer and music critic.

Otto Winter Hjelm studied at University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Training under Richard Wüerst is recorded. Nelly Enger, Therese Kling and Astrid Onarheim are recorded as having studied under Otto Winter Hjelm. The recorded working language is Norwegian. Residence is recorded at Oslo.

Otto Winther-Hjelm was born in Christiana (Oslo), and studied in Leipzig and Berlin. During his career, he became a leading force in Norwegian music, establishing a music school in 1864 and founding the music Conservatory in Christiana (different from today's Oslo Conservatory of Music and Norwegian Academy of Music) with Edvard Grieg in 1866. He also served as organist for the Trinity Church in Oslo from 1874 to 1921 and music critic for Aftenposten from 1887 to 1913. Winter-Hjelm composed two symphonies and a number of cantata and songs for male chorus.

• Waltz (1856) • Piano Trio (whilst studying with Arnold; 1860) • Overture voor orchestra (1861) • Symphony No. 1 in B flat major (1862) • Symphony No. 2 in B minor (1863) • Ho Åstrid, song on a text of Kristofer Janson (1870) • Til Halfdan Kjerulfs Minne (1870) • Fjukande skyer, song (1870) • 12 Sangstudier (1871) • Fifty Psalms for piano or harmonium (1872) • Til Hans Gude for piano (1872) • Luther Cantata for choir and orchestra (1883) • Lyset, University cantata on a text of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1897)