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GADE, Niels Wilhelm

Portrait of Niels Gade (1845) by Johann Georg Weinhold

Born in Copenhagen, Feb 22, 1817
Died in Copenhagen, Dec 21, 1890

  • Gade was the foremost musical figure in 19th C. Denmark.
  • Gade worked with Mendelssohn in Leipzig as the assistant conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and as a Leipzig Conservatory instructor before returning to Denmark to found one of the country’s first permanent orchestras.
  • Gade was responsible for the Danish premiere of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and he helped raise the musical culture in Denmark to an international level.1

Biography

Sources

  1. Bo Marschner and Finn Egeland Hansen, “Gade, Niels W(ilhelm),” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 8, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000010464.

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