Siegfried Saloman

As early as a 12-year-old Siegfried Saloman already played the violin, so he continued his studies in Copenhagen under the guidance of J. P. E. Hartmann, among others.

In 1838 he received a 3-year scholarship which he used to stay in Dessau, where he studied music theory and composition with Friedrich Schneider.

Together with his wife, the Swedish opera singer Henriette Nissen, he made extensive concert tours in Europe.

His first songs Tordenskjold i Dynekilen and Diamantkorset had no success in Copenhagen, and his third ballad opera, Hjertet på prøve, was not well accepted either.

In 1850 he was invited to Weimar by Franz Liszt, where his comic opera Das Korps der Rache was written.