NIELS WILHELM GADE (1817-1890) Danish composer. Niels Wilhelm Gade Free midi downloads.

NIELS WILHELM GADE
22^nd February 1817 --- 21^st December 1890

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Niels Wilhelm Gade a Danish composer born in Copenhagen, on February 1817, his father being a musical instrument maker. Though he studied the
violin under Wexschall and theory under Weyse and Berggreen, he was largely self-taught. In 1840 his Aladdin and his overture of Ossian attracted
attention, and in 1841 his Nachklange aus Ossian overture gained the local musical society's prize, the judges being Spohr and Schneider. A further
stipend from the Knig enabled him to go to Leipzig and Italy.

In 1844 Gade conducted the Gewandhaus concerts in Leipzig during Mendelssohn's abscence and on the latter's death became chief conducter. In
1848 on the outbreak of the Holstein war, he returned to Copenhagen, where he was appointed organist and conducter of the Musik-Verein. Then
in 1852 he married a daughter of the composer J.P.E.Hartmann. He became court conducter in 1861, and was pensioned in 1876, the same year he
visited Birmingham to conduct his Crusaders.   This work and the Fruhlingsfantasie and Erlkonigs Tochter, Fruhlingsbotschalf an Psyche (written
for Birmingham in 1882) and enjoyed great popularity.

Of his eight symphonies the best are the First and Fourth.   A friend of Mendelssohn and of Schubert, Gade was a romanticist, whose music owes
much to Scandinavian folk songs. He died in Copenhagen in 1890.
Copyright 1953 Encyclopaedia Britannica

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4486)"Ballet of Aug Bournoville, Reel, Act.2". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

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(4431)"Phantasiestucke, (A Fantasy play) Opus.31, Mov.2". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4446)"Phantasiestucke, (A Fantasy play) Opus.31, Mov.3". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4447)"Phantasiestucke, (A Fantasy play) Opus.31, Mov.4". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

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