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About Anfinn Øien
- Anfinn Hans August Øien (March 29, 1922 - November 12, 2018) was a Norwegian organist and music teacher. Øien was born in Aurskog, and grew up on the Øien farm until he moved to Oslo in 1939 for upper secondary education.
- He studied at the Oslo Conservatory of Music and under the organist Finn Viderø in Copenhagen.
- He started working as a church organist in 1946, including at Lilleborg Church in Oslo.
- He started teaching at the Oslo Conservatory of Music in 1966 and served as its head from 1969 to 1973.
- After the Norwegian Academy of Music was established in 1973, he served as a senior instructor of harmony and counterpoint from 1973 to 1984, and then held the position of full professor from 1985 to 1990.
- He composed church music and also music for the hymn "Guds menighet er jordens største under" (God's Congregation Is Earth's Greatest Wonder) by Ronald Fangen, and he published a popular book on music theory.
- He set 16 hymns by Per Lønning to music in 2000, published by Cantando music publishers in Stavanger, and one of them was adopted as a new city song of Oslo. Øien resided at Blommenholm between 1968 and 2002, when he moved back to Aurskog.
- He was the grandfather of the guitarist Anders Clemens Øien. In 2002 he was awarded the King's Medal of Merit in gold.
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