{{Short description|Norwegian lawyer, composer, and musicologist (1861–1914)}} {{Infobox person |name = Georg Reiss |image = GeorgMichaelReiss.jpg |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1861|8|12|mf=y}} |birth_place = Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway |death_date = {{Death date and age|1914|1|25|1861|8|12|mf=y}} |death_place = |resting_place = |occupation = Lawyer, composer, and musicologist |awards = | spouse = | children = Thorleif Reiss<br />Elisabeth Reiss | mother = | father = | relatives = Helge Reiss }}
'''Georg Michael Dødelein Reiss''' (August 12, 1861 – January 25, 1914) was a Norwegian lawyer, composer, and musicologist.<ref name="INKL">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Georg Reiss |encyclopedia= Illustreret norsk konversationsleksikon, vol. 6 |publisher=Aschehoug|location=Oslo |url=https://runeberg.org/ink/6/0026.html |date=1913 |language=Norwegian |access-date=December 10, 2022}}</ref> In 1913 he became the first Norwegian to receive a doctorate on a music theory subject.<ref name="SNL">{{Cite encyclopedia |last1=Andersen |first1=Rune J. |title=Georg Reiss |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Georg_Reiss |language=Norwegian|accessdate=December 10, 2022}}</ref><ref name="NBL">{{Cite encyclopedia |last1=Ledang |first1=Ola Kai |title=Georg Reiss |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Georg_Reiss |language=Norwegian |accessdate=December 10, 2022}}</ref>
==Career== Reiss was trained as a lawyer; he received his candidate of law degree in 1886, and he started working as a secretary in the Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs in 1899.<ref name="SNL"/> He was a pupil of Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, Otto Winter-Hjelm, and Christian Cappelen.<ref name="INKL"/> Later he also studied at the Academy of Music in Berlin. He was organist at Saint Peter's Church (since 1962 Sofienberg Church) in Kristiania from 1893 to 1914,<ref name="INKL"/><ref name="SNL"/> and he was a music reviewer for ''Dagbladet'' from 1893 to 1896, for ''Nordisk Musikrevue'' from 1903 to 1906, and for ''Verdens Gang'' from 1904 onward.<ref name="NBL"/> Reiss himself wrote a church cantata in 1902, and other compositions for voice and choir, including an eight-part kyrie.<ref name="INKL"/>
With support from the Nansen Foundation and as a government scholar starting in 1908, Reiss studied neume notation, paleography, and medieval music theory, published manuscripts from the National Archives, worked on two sequences for Saint Olav, and received a PhD in 1913 with his dissertation ''Musiken ved den middelalderlige Olavsdyrkelse i Norden'' (Music in the Medieval Olav Cult in the Nordic Countries), which was Norway's first doctorate in music history.<ref name="SNL"/><ref name="NBL"/>
==Family== Georg Reiss was the son of the music teacher Hans Peter Reiss (1824–1908) and Petronelle Cornelia Hansen (1832–1879). Georg Reiss married Elisabeth Dymling (1861–1920), a merchant's daughter, in Vänersborg in 1893. They were the parents of the actor Thorleif Reiss and the pianist and cabaret performer Elisabeth Reiss. Georg Reiss was the grandfather of the actor Helge Reiss.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |last1=Brodal |first1=Svein Erik |title=Thorleif Reiss |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Thorleif_Reiss |language=Norwegian|accessdate=December 14, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Hvem er hvem? |date=1973 |publisher=Aschehoug |location=Oslo |page=456}}</ref>
==Works== *1900: ''Drei Lieder in altern Stile für gemischten Chor a capella: Op. 3''. Christiania: Haakon Zapffe. *1908: ''Det norske rigsarkivs middelalderlige musikhaandskrifter: en oversigt''. Christiania: Dybwad. *1912: ''Musiken ved den middelalderlige Olavsdyrkelse i Norden''. Kristiania: I kommission hos J. Dybwad. (Dissertation)
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