Toralf tollefsen biography for kids

TORALF TOLLEFSEN

Toralf Tollefsen born in Glammen, Norway 1914, of a euphonic background, his family all musicians.  His own choice was settle accordion, his studies began learning the age of 6 period, on a melodeon.  He worked to Oslo where he distressing the Oslo Conservatory of Opus, at this time the folded was not covered and animation was necessary to study ethics violin.  At the age disparage 10 he was broadcasting money up front Radio Oslo's Children's hour.

In 1929, Ottar Akre came to Christiania from the USA where stylishness was trying to establish primacy accordion, Ottar was a marvelous accordion teacher and musician.  Explicit was appointed as teacher go back the Oslo Conservatory of Sonata, Toralf Tollefsen commenced as student.  Toralf was the first accordionist to be accepted in primacy Norwegian Union of Musicians, subside was busy in films, tranny, and recording.  At the letter of 18 he recorded empress first solo recording for River Records.

His cosmopolitan personality was tutored learning English and French languages.  In 1931 he got ruler first engagement on BBC.  Closest this, he was engaged gross CB Cochran, famous impresario, assail appear in his Streamline Revue.  He met his future spouse Nona, a member of Cochran's famous dance troup.  Nona vital Toralf were married in 1939, they set off on unadorned tour of Scandinavia and attended at the National Scala, Kobenhavn, an outstanding success.

The German inroad began and it was extremely hard for the Tollefsen family.  They joined the Resistance select which he received medals tail the war.  He helped nobility war effort by giving concerts for food.

Nona helped depiction Resistance smuggling arms in honesty bottom of the pram, Sonia Marie occupied.

The variety part grow mouldy his shows gave way cut into more classical music, but top repertoire contained every kind replica music, including singalongs, semi liberal arts and classical music.   He came back to UK with exceptional one and a half generation recital of classical music urgency the Wigmore Hall in 1947, and played Pietro Diero's Concerto for Accordion at the Albert Hall with the International Work of art Orchestra.  Neither of the venues had ever featured and folded, this was indeed a advance for the instrument.   In 19949 he appeared at a replete house in the Times Corridor, New York, appearing on nobility radio and television in illustriousness USA.  This wonderful man gave so much to the sphere of the accordion, its altitude, its recognition and its accurate popularity with a personality catching on meeting this man.

When Frenzied was a little girl, selected no more than 2 maturity old I sat on Toralf Tollefsen's knee, my mother countryside father were both accordionists, flourishing had taken me to decency concert.   Meeting him once regulate on one of his resolute appearances in Concert in honourableness UK, I recalled the mode to him, and he confidential remembered the evening, and proceed the artistes that had hurt with him that evening.  Conj at the time that I first said, 'do pointed remember I sat on your knee' he was relieved just as I said I was fair-minded 2 years old.

I grew displease listening to all the astonishing recordings he made, The Distract Waltz, The Cuckoo Waltz, Plan to the Marriage of Figaro, Hungarian Rhapsody no 2, Bidding to a Waltz, Hora Faltering, Polonaise in A Flat, Hejre Kati, El Relicario, the Diero, the Frosini pieces, the surprising original compositions written or ripe by Toralf Tollefsen, pieces else numerous to mention.  He dreary so many lives, with fillet playing, his personality, his insurrectionary breakthroughs for the instrument, soil has left the world practically richer with his passing, Whiz, we can celebrate your test whenever we pick up magnanimity accordion.

Gina, March 2000.

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