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Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway
About Eva Knardahl
- Eva Knardahl Freiwald (10 May 1927 – 3 September 2006) was a Norwegian pianist, with a noted career both as a child prodigy and adult performer. Her debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 12, in which she played three concertos (those by Johann Sebastian Bach in F minor, Joseph Haydn in D major and Carl Maria von Weber in C major), was received with rave reviews.
- Knardahl was a student of Mary Barrat Due, who was educated in Italy.
- Idar Karevold, a music professor in Oslo, said that Knardahl's Italian style was unique in Norway. She emigrated at 19 to the United States, where she had a distinguished career with the Minnesota Orchestra for 15 years, before returning to Norway in 1967.
- She became a popular fixture on the Norwegian music scene and was named the first professor of chamber music at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
- Knardahl was awarded the Norwegian Spellemanspris twice, and she also won the Norwegian Critics' Prize in 1968.
- She died in Oslo, aged 79. Knardahl is most known for her interpretations of the piano works of Edvard Grieg.
- She recorded the composer's complete piano music on 13 LPs for BIS Records in 1977-1980.
- The recordings were reissued in 2006 on 12 compact discs, also on BIS Records.
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