Nancy Dalberg

Nancy Dalberg ( born July 6, 1881 in Drøsselbjerg; † September 28, 1949 in Frederiksberg) was a Danish composer.

The daughter of the factory owner Christian Hansen grew up on Funen and had piano lessons as a child. Since her childhood she knew twenty years older composer Hilda Sehested. You became a piano student of Ove Christensen and was in 1907 at a charity concert their first public appearance as a pianist, in which she played works by Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin.

After an arm injury, she gave up playing the piano and took composition lessons with Fini Valdemar Henriques and since 1909 when Johan Svendsen, after his death until 1913 with the famous Carl Nielsen. Nielsen, she introduced mainly in the instrumentation and trusted her to the instrumentation of his own compositions such as Aladdin and Fynsk Forår.

Dalberg's own compositional work was written between 1914 and the end of the 1930s. At a private concert in 1914 premiered with success their first string quartet. In a public concert in the next year along with the string quartet a Scherzo for String Orchestra, an Andante serioso and fantasy piece for cello and piano and songs were performed.

1917 Dalberg wrote the first woman in Denmark a symphony, in the following year a Capriccio for Orchestra, both works were performed under Nielsen's line. In the following years came mostly chamber works, including two more string quartets, the last of which was dedicated to Nielsen, and two Fantasy Pieces for Violin and Piano, whose second Dalberg violinist Emil Telmányi devoted.

After a trip North Africa 1922-23 Dalberg composed an Arabic music from the Sahara for oboe, viola and drums. Besides songs were mainly based on texts by contemporary Danish poets like Mads Nielsen, Thor Lange and Hans Hartvig Pedersen Seedorff recorded by singers like Anders Brems, Else Ammentorp and Ingeborg Steffensen into the repertoire and published.

• Danish composer
• Born in 1881
• Died in 1949
• Woman