Finn Benestad
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Finn Benestad is a Norwegian musicologist
Musicology
Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...

 and music critic. He was appointed Professor at the University of Oslo
University of Oslo
The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 from 1965 to 1998, and is probably best known for his long-term research on composer Edvard Grieg
Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...

.

Life and career

Benestad was born in Kristiansand
Kristiansand
-History:As indicated by archeological findings in the city, the Kristiansand area has been settled at least since 400 AD. A royal farm is known to have been situated on Oddernes as early as 800, and the first church was built around 1040...

 as the son of Harald Martin Benestad and Ellen Kittelsen. He married Inge Bergliot Rosendal in 1951. He graduated in musicology
Musicology
Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...

 from the University of Oslo in 1953. He worked as a school teacher in Oslo from 1950 to 1959, and was assigned a position at the University from 1960 to 1961. In 1961 he was appointed professor at Norges Lærerhøgskole (later merged into the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology , commonly known as NTNU, is located in Trondheim. NTNU is the second largest of the eight universities in Norway, and, as its name suggests, has the main national responsibility for higher education in engineering and technology...

) in Trondheim
Trondheim
Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

, and from 1965 to 1998 he was a professor at the University of Oslo.

Among his books is a study of composer Johannes Haarklou
Johannes Haarklou
Johannes Haarklou was a Norwegian composer. He was born in Førde. Among his operas are Fra gamle Dage from 1894, Væringerne i Miklagard from 1901, and Marisagnet from 1909. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St...

 from 1961, Waldemar Thrane from 1961, and Musikklære (Music theory) from 1963. He published the songbooks Skolens visebok (Songbook for school) in 1972 (co-edited with Klakegg and Lunde), and Syng med (Sing along) in 1988.

He co-wrote the biography Edvard Grieg – mennesket og kunstneren
Edvard Grieg – mennesket og kunstneren
Edvard Grieg – mennesket og kunstneren is a biography of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, written by Finn Benestad and Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe in 1980....

together with Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe
Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe
Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe is a Norwegian musicologist, composer, music critic and biographer. He was a lecturer at the University of Oslo for thirty years, from 1973 with the title of Professor...

 in 1980, a work that has been translated to several languages, including English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 and Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

. (English title Edvard Grieg. The Man and the Artist). From 1980 to 2004 he chaired the committee responsible for publishing the twenty volumes of Grieg's Collected Works. He has edited books on Grieg's correspondence, and on Grieg's diaries
Diary
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. In 1990 he published a biographical book on composer Johan Svendsen
Johan Svendsen
Johan Severin Svendsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. Born in Christiania , Norway, he lived most his life in Copenhagen, Denmark....

, Johan Svendsen – mennesket og kunstneren (Johan Svendsen. The Man and the Artist), in cooperation with Schjelderup-Ebbe. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1993.
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