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Niels Wilhelm Gade (February 22, 1817 – December 21, 1890) was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. He is considered a first Danish musician of his day.

Gade was natural inside Copenhagen. He began his career as a fiddler sustaining a Royal Orchestra there prior to sending his foremost symphony, turned down for performance inside Copenhagen, to Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn received a function positively, & conducted it within Leipzig. Gade himself moved to Leipzig, teaching at a Conservatory there, working as an adjunct conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, and befriending Mendelssohn, world health organizatiin experienced an crucial influence on his music. He too became friends sustaining Robert Schumann.

He returned to Copenhagen in the late 1840s, becoming director of the Copenhagen Musical Society (the post he retained until his demise) & establishing the newly orchestra & chorus. He too worked as an organist & was joint director of the Copenhagen Conservatory sustaining Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (whose daughter Gade married around 1852) & Holger Simon Paulli, and worked as an organist. An significant influence in the total of late Scandinavian composers, he encouraged & taught two Edvard Grieg and Carl Nielsen. He died within Copenhagen.

Among Gade's works come eight symphonies, a violin concerto, chamber music, piano pieces and the total of heavy-shell cantatas, Comala (1846) and Elverskud (1853) amongst the children, which he known as koncertstykker. Which are actually another time according to Danish folklore.

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Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish Composer (1817-1890)
Brief biography with photograph from Dacapo Records.

Miscellaneous songs by Niels Wilhelm Gade
Links to texts in the original Danish.

Classical Music Archives: Gaden
Music files offered in MIDI format.

Gade, Niels Wilhelm
Biography noting the quality of his compositions, impact on 19th Century Danish music, and major works from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.

Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817-1890)
Brief biography and caricature with summaries of orchestral, chamber, piano, and vocal and choral music with recommended Naxos recordings.

Niels Wilhelm Gade
Musica Classica Classical Music Dictionary entry with life, works, related composers, links, and illustrations.


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