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Halfdan Jebe (November 3, 1868, Trondheim – December 17, 1937, Mexico) was a Norwegian composer and violinist.

He received his training in Christiania, Leipzig (violin with Sitt), Berlin (with Joachim) and Paris (composition with Massenet), where he played in the Colonne Orchestra (1894–7). In Paris he was a member of the group of Scandinavian musicians, artists and writers (Munch, Krag, Strindberg, Sinding and others) to which Delius was attached, and he and Delius became firm friends. In summer 1896 the two men, and according to tradition the writer Knut Hamsun, made a concert tour in Norway, and in January 1897 Jebe accompanied Delius on his second trip to Florida. In November that year he became conductor at the Central Theatre in Christiania, where he met his future wife, the actress Sofie Bernhoft. He left the theatre after only one season, and, joining forces with Delius again, spent Christmas 1898 with Delius's sister Clare in Yorkshire. He led the orchestra which gave the first concert of Delius's music in England in St James's Hall on 30 May 1899. Twelve letters from Jebe to Delius survive in the Delius Trust Archives; three of them have been published (Delius: a Life in Letters, London, 1983).

Alnæs studied music first in Oslo with Iver Holter, then in Leipzig with Carl Reinecke and, after the premiere of his first symphony in 1896, in Berlin with Julius Ruthardt.

From 1895 to 1907 Alnæs served as an organist in Drammen, and then for many years played the organ in several churches and conducted choirs in Oslo. He helped found the Norwegian Society of Composers.

Alnæs wrote music in a late Romantic style, and his output included two symphonies, one set of symphonic variations, a piano concerto, pieces for piano, choral preludes for organ, choral works, and art songs (in Norwegian, romanser).