# Georg Reiss

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{{Short description|Norwegian lawyer, composer, and musicologist (1861–1914)}}
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'''Georg Michael Dødelein Reiss''' (August 12, 1861 – January 25, 1914) was a [Norwegian](/source/Norwegians) 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](/source/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](/source/Ludvig_Mathias_Lindeman), [Otto Winter-Hjelm](/source/Otto_Winter-Hjelm), and [Christian Cappelen](/source/Christian_Cappelen).<ref name="INKL"/> Later he also studied at the [Academy of Music](/source/Berlin_University_of_the_Arts) in [Berlin](/source/Berlin). He was organist at Saint Peter's Church (since 1962 [Sofienberg Church](/source/Sofienberg_Church)) in [Kristiania](/source/Oslo) from 1893 to 1914,<ref name="INKL"/><ref name="SNL"/> and he was a music reviewer for ''[Dagbladet](/source/Dagbladet)'' from 1893 to 1896, for ''Nordisk Musikrevue'' from 1903 to 1906, and for ''[Verdens Gang](/source/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](/source/kyrie).<ref name="INKL"/>

With support from the [Nansen Foundation](/source/Nansen_Foundation) and as a [government scholar](/source/government_scholar) starting in 1908, Reiss studied [neume](/source/neume) notation, paleography, and medieval music theory, published manuscripts from the [National Archives](/source/National_Archives_of_Norway), worked on two sequences for [Saint Olav](/source/Olaf_II_of_Norway), 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](/source/V%C3%A4nersborg) in 1893. They were the parents of the actor [Thorleif Reiss](/source/Thorleif_Reiss) and the pianist and cabaret performer [Elisabeth Reiss](/source/Elisabeth_Reiss). Georg Reiss was the grandfather of the actor [Helge Reiss](/source/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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