Denmark

Theatre built in 1767, still used for small scale theatre productions, concerts and readings. Since 1972 also a theatre museum with costumes, set designs and -models and pictures. Large archive.

Theatre built in 1874, now used for ballet (Royal Danish Ballet) and concerts (Royal Danish Orchestra).

Established in 1771. Dance training combined with all-round education, from 7 years old.

Ballet tradition since 1730, with a peak during the 19^th century under August Bournonville (1805-79).

Concert hall in the palace of Chr. August von Beckentin (1755) and Heinrich von Schimmelstein (1762).

The Charlottenborg palace, the former Royal Academy of Fine Arts (since 1754), had an opera theatre where 18^th century composers worked, incl. Gluck, Sarti and Mingotti. Today an art hall.

Entertainment park, est. in 1843, with a variety of attractions. In the mid 19^th century, music was provided by Hans Christian Lumbye, the ‘Danish Strauß’, until 1872; he is honored with a statue.

Tivoli has its own Symphony Orchestra and a large concert hall. Performances of all kinds of music especially during summer (May-September). www.tivoli.dk/en

One of the best places for Jazz lovers in Northern Europe. From 1959 until 1976 top musicians appeared, incl. Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins and many Danish stars. Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon and Ben Webster moved to Copenhagen to get close to this platform.

In 1976 the Jazzhus moved to Nørregade 41, closed in 1995. Reopening on the first address in 2010.

www.jazzhusmontmartre.dk

The new opera house, by architect Henning Larsen, was opened in 2004. It has 1492-1703 seats.

National museum of history, archeology and ethnography. Among the exhibits are two treasures of great importance for the musical history: 1/ the Greek Seikilos epitaph from the 2^nd century B.C., found in southern Turkey and famous because of its inscription: the oldest extant example of musical notation; and 2/ a collection of Lurs, bronze horns from the Nordic bronze age and mostly found in Denmark and southern Sweden.

The lurs were always found in pairs, so it is supposed that they also were being played in pairs. The lur players’ monument was erected in the 19^th century; it is said that they will blow their horns when a virgin passes beneath the statue.

The Music Museum, formerly at Åbenrå 32, and the Royal Conservatory of Music, est. 1868, were moved in 2011 to the former Broadcasting building at Rosenørms allé.

The extensive collection of instruments from Europe, Asia and Africa includes the Carl Claudius Sammling (1926). There is a large library and photo archive. Unfortunately public access is limited.

This church was built in the 1680s. The organ is by the Batzen brothers, 1698, restored and extended in 1965; IV/p/57. From the spiral tower sounds daily the biggest carillon of Scandinavia, originally by J.Mercki, 1697-1700. The present instrument is a reconstruction and enlargement from 1928-32.

House of Giuseppe Sarti (1729-1802), an Italian composer of 70 operas and other works, who lived in Copenhagen from 1753 until 1779 (with a 3 years intermission). He left for Italy, having made debts and being involved in political intrigues. From 1784 he worked in St. Petersburg.

The birthplace of Niels Gade (1817-90) in this street was demolished or destroyed in 1942. Gade was a friend and cooperator of Mendelssohn in Leipzig and afterwards the leading figure in Denmark as composer, conductor, violinist, teacher and administrator of the musical life. As a composer he is much indebted to Mendelssohn.

House of the composer and organist Joh. Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900); he lived here from 1829 until his death. As a prolific composer, he was of equal stature as his son-in-law Gade, but the latter had more connections outside Denmark and became internationally better known.

House of Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774-1842), the predecessor of Hartmann as organist of the Vor Frue Kike. He lived here from 1825. His fame as a composer was based on his songs and operas.

Last house of the pianist and composer Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832). Like his friend Weyse of German birth. From his extensive oeuvre in all genres, the piano- and flute music is best known.

Mozart’s widow Constanze married in 1809 with the Danish diplomat Georg Nikolaus Nissen and lived from 1810 to 1821 in Copenhagen in this house. She returned to Salzburg with Nissen (†1826) and died in 1842.

The most important and best known Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) lived here around 1920; the present state of the house could not be verified.

Last home of Carl Nielsen. The house was built in 1771; one plaque for Nielsen, another one for the artist H.W. Bissen.

Nielsen monument, made in 1939 by his widow, the sculptress Anna Maria Nielsen-Brodersen. An equestrian statue is an unusual monument for a composer; he is pictured as the god Pan, riding on the horse Pegasus.

Monument of Niels Gade, made in 1897 by Vilhelm Bissen.

In 1973-83, Gade was also honored with a museum of its own in Humlebæck near the art park Louisiana, but unfortunately it has not survived.

Niels Gade was organist in this church from 1858. From the organ by Lambert Castens (1738) only the front is extant; new interior by Marcussen, 1956, III/p/56.

Graves of Niels Gade, †1890, and of the organist and composer Rued Langgaard (1893-1952), a child prodigy who passed from avant-garde to romanticism, which put him in an isolated position.

Grave of J.E.P. Hartmann, †1900.

Graves of Friedrich Kuhlau, †1832 and of the family of musicians Horneman, the ballet pioneers Bournonville and Galeotti and the jazz musician Ben Webster.

Grave of August Enna (1859-1939), a prolific and in Denmark rather popular opera- and operetta composer.

Graves of Carl Nielsen, †1931, and of Asger Hamerik (or Hammerich, 1843-1923), the best composer to fill the gap between Gade and Nielsen (operas, 7 symphonies a.o.). From 1871 to 1900 he worked in the USA.

Ruins of Gurre castle of king Valdemar IV Atterdag, 14^th century and excavated in the 1830s. There are an overture Gurre (1860) and an opera Tovelille (1865) by Asger Hamerik.

The Gurrelieder by Jens Peter Jacobsen (1868) about the love of the king for his mistress Tovelille and its fatal outcome were set to music (1900-11) by Arnold Schönberg; the huge opus was the composer’s greatest success during his lifetime and achieved a key position in musical history.

Two more organs by Marcussen, 1864 and 2002.

The famous German/Danish composer and organist Dietrich Buxtehude (1837-1707) lived in Helsingør from 1642 and became organist here in 1660, but in 1668 leaved for Lübeck.

The organ (J. Lorentz 1640/H.C. Fritzsche 1661) was reconstructed in 1960 by Frobenius; III/p/29. 

Organ by Gregor Mülisch, 1654, with parts from its predecessor by Rottenstein-Pock from 1555. Restored by Marcussen in 1991; III/p/33.

Fugsang castle existed since the 14^th century but the present building was built in 1869. The owner, Rolf Viggo Johansen de Neergaard was a music lover. Among his frequent guests were Edvard Grieg, Julius Röntgen and Carl Nielsen (composing Maskerade in 1905).

The museum shows a reconstruction of Nielsen’s study, besides documents, scores and the composer’s instruments (bugle, violin, piano).

Odense has more musical history; in the archive of the symphonic orchestra two manuscripts were found: in 1928 an unknown overture by Rossini (baptized Sinfonia del Odense) and in 1982 a symphony by Mozart, in a, KV 16a.

The birthplace of Nielsen was demolished (the spot is marked by a slab; address unknown) but nearby, his next childhood home Petersborg is extant and accessible for the public. Attention is given to the years 1874-79.

Summer house of Nielsen, called Finis Terrae’ from 1918 onwards. Its present condition could not be verified.

Organ case (1633) and pedal towers (1653) by Jens Olafsen. Interior by Frobenius, 1973; fourth manual added in 1993; IV/p/50. Rued Langgaard was organist here from 1940 to 1952.