Famous People with Name Saloman

Siegfried Saloman            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Siegfried Saloman: was a Danish violinist and composer. A contemporary of Franz Liszt, he was a pupil of Johannes Frederik Fröhlich, Holger Simon Paulli, Frederik Thorkildsen Wexschall and Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, from whom he received violin-playing lessons. He toured extensively throughout Europe with the Swedish opera singer Henriette Nissen, with whom he got married in 1850. In 1842 his nine booklets of romances and songs were published in Hamburg. His first songs Tordenskjold i Dynekilen and Diamantkorset had no success in Copenhagen, and his third ballad opera, Hjertet på prøve, was not well accepted either. Therefore in 1847 he left Copenhagen and traveled to Germany where his Diamantkorset was well received in Berlin and Leipzig. In 1850 he was invited to Weimar by Franz Liszt, where his comic opera Das Korps der Rache was written. His Stockholm years were particularly important in his career once several of his early works and a number of new ones were written. He died after a few years of infirmity contracted during a summer stay in the Swedish island of Dalarö.