# Per Reidarson

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**Per Reidarson** (27 May 1879 – 21 January 1954) was a Norwegian composer and [music critic](/source/Music_critic).

In the early twentieth century he was an acknowledged composer. For his body of work he was granted *kunstnerlønn*, a [guaranteed minimum income](/source/Guaranteed_minimum_income) for artists, by the Norwegian state in 1938. He had also worked as a music critic in the newspapers *[Tidens Tegn](/source/Tidens_Tegn)* and *[Arbeiderbladet](/source/Arbeiderbladet)*.[1]

However, he eventually joined the political party [Nasjonal Samling](/source/Nasjonal_Samling) and began writing for their official publication *[Fritt Folk](/source/Fritt_Folk)*. In 1941–1942, while Norway was [occupied by Germany](/source/German_occupation_of_Norway), he held the lecture *Norsk og unorsk i musikken* ('Norwegian and Un-Norwegian in Music'), anger directed at the perceived "Jewish and Marxist" [Modernist music](/source/Modernist_music).[1]

In 1945, when the occupation of Norway ended, Reidarson was marginalized and immediately lost his artist's income.[1]

## References

1. Stenseth, Bodil (1995). ["Reidarson, Per"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100104075201/http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/r/r1.html#reidarson-per). *[Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45](/source/Norsk_krigsleksikon_1940-45)*. [Dahl, Hans Fredrik](/source/Hans_Fredrik_Dahl) (ed.). Oslo: Cappelen. Archived from [the original](http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/r/r1.html#reidarson-per) on 2010-01-04. Retrieved 2008-11-08.

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