Kjerulf Halfdan. Intermezzo and Springtanz Op. 27 für Klavier

New York: Schirmer, 1897. — 6 p.Halfdan Kjerulf (1815 – 1868) was a Norwegian composer.
Kjerulf was born in Christiania (now Oslo). He was the son of a high government official. He started his career as a music teacher and composer of songs before ever having seriously studied music at all, and not for ten years did he attract any particular notice. He did present some concerts, at which he introduced the Norwegian public to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and other standards otherwise little known to them. He obtained some official recognition during the 1860s. He died in Grefsen, near Christiania, in 1868, aged only 52.
His fame rests mainly on his beautiful and manly national partsongs and solos. His piano music is equally charming. Edvard Grieg was an enthusiastic admirer of it and he was undoubtedly influenced by it in writing his Lyric Pieces.
These two pieces were composed in 1852-1853.