Karl Nissen

Karl Nissen (February 27, 1879 – May 14, 1920) was a Norwegian pianist, teacher, music journalist, and conductor.

Biography Nissen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the son of the physician Oscar Nissen and pianist Erika Nissen, and he was taught piano by his mother. He first performed publicly at one of his mother's concerts in 1897.

Nissen studied under Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin, and made concert trips to Berlin, Prague, Antwerp, Odessa, and several places in Scandinavia.

Nissen was a teacher at the Oslo Conservatory of Music. Among his students were David Monrad Johansen and Elisabeth Munthe-Kaas Sandvik, who debuted at his concert in 1906. He was chairman of the Norwegian National Music Teachers' Federation from 1918 to 1920.

In 1911 he became the conductor of the Cæcilia mixed choir, succeeded by Leif Halvorsen after his death.