Louis Glass

Louis Christian August Glass ( born March 23, 1864 in Copenhagen, † January 22, 1936 ibid ) was a Danish composer.

Glass took music lessons from his father, Christian Hendrik Glass and studied with Niels Wilhelm Gade, in Brussels with the pianist Józef Wieniawski, Juliusz Zarebski and. From 1915 to 1918 he was conductor of the Danish Concert Association, then director of the Conservatory and the Music Teacher Association of Copenhagen.

He composed six large, influenced by César Franck and Anton Bruckner program symphonies, a ballet, an orchestral suite ( Sommerliv ), two overtures ( Enemy of the People, and Denmark), a fantasy for piano and orchestra, an oboe concerto, chamber music ( including a number of string quartets ), piano pieces and songs. As Nancy Dalberg and Rued Langgaard he was always in the shadow of his great contemporary Carl Nielsen.

  • Danish composer
  • Born in 1864
  • Died in 1936
  • Man
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