Niels Wilhelm Gade is a Compositeur Danish, born the February 22nd 1817 with Copenhagen and dead the December 21st 1890 in this same city.

Biography

Wire of a carpenter factor of instruments, it begins a career of Violoniste, before its first work, the opening Souvenirs of Ossian , is not preceded by the musical Company of Copenhagen in 1840. Then it decides to send its first symphony to Felix Mendelssohn which, enthusiastic, creates it with its Orchestre of Gewandhaus of Leipzig in March 1843.

With the assistance of a purse of voyage of the Danish government, it goes to Leipzig in order to teach there and to assist Mendelssohn with the desk of direction. He becomes the friend of this last as of Robert Schumann which sees in him a “exceptional type-setter”.

At the end of the years 1840, it goes back to Denmark in order to ensure it the direction of the musical Company of Copenhagen - until its death fifty years later. For this period, it creates a new orchestra and a new chorus while working like Organiste. He encourages the young Scandinavian contemporary type-setters, such Edvard Grieg.

He married the girl of the Danish type-setter Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann.

Principal works

Symphonies

• Symphony nº 1 in minor C, COp 5 (1842)
• Symphony nº 2 into semi major, COp 10 (1843)
• Symphony nº 3 in the minor, COp 15 (1846)
• Symphony nº 4 in major B flat, COp 20 (1849)
• Symphony nº 5 in minor D, COp 25 (1852)
• Symphony nº 6 in minor ground, COp 32 (1857)
• Symphony nº 7 in major F, COp 45 (1864)
• Symphony nº 8 in so minor, COp 47 (1871)

Other works

Apart from the symphonies, Gade composed a concerto for violin, of the Chamber music, the parts for piano and the cantatas.

External bonds

• Biography

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