Asger Hamerik

Asger Hamerik ( born April 8, 1843 in Frederiksberg, † July 13, 1923 ) was a Danish composer and conductor.

Life

Hamerik, who was born with the name Asger Erich Hamm, was the son of theology professor Frederik Hamm Erich. Although he should also study theology, but proved his musical talent as so great that he could start studying music among others Niels Wilhelm Gade and Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, with whom he was distantly related on his mother, 1859. In 1862 he finished his studies and traveled first to London, but soon to Berlin, where he became a pupil of Hans von Bülow. As 1864 broke the German - Danish War, he preferred, however, to leave Prussia and move to Paris. He also changed his German surname Hamm Erich into the Danish sounding Hamerik. In Paris he studied until 1869 at Hector Berlioz. After his death, he traveled through Europe before 1871, the management of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, a music academy, took over. Here he worked as a teacher, composer and conductor until the dissolution of the Institute in 1895. In 1890, he planned to take over the management of the Academy of Music in Copenhagen, but the death of Gade, with whom he had so agreed, failed. Therefore Hamerik could not leave until 1898 Baltimore. After a concert tour through Europe in 1900 he settled back in his home down. However, in Danish musical life, he played no role, especially since he hardly composed from 1900. Hameriks son Ebbe was also a composer.

Style

Hamerik was at that time outside of Denmark, together with Gade most famous composer of his country. However, this was hardly noticed in Denmark, as it was largely active in America. There, however, he was regarded as a highly significant figure in the music world. According to his conducting activities, Hamerik concentrated as a composer to orchestral works. These are based, however, hardly specific to Danish music - unless it is expressly named in the title as in the Nordic suites - but rather on the Franco-German tradition and especially to his teacher Berlioz. Its vision of an idée fixe, that is a theme that runs through all parts of a plant in cyclical variations, is a commonly observable element of Hameriks works (especially the symphonies ). During the Paris period manifested the influence of Berlioz's also in some monstrous occupied works such as the Hymne à la paix. Overall Hamerik is probably the least nationally oriented the Danish composer of the Romantic period. In return, he just had a special feeling for the shape formation.

Works

• Orchestral works Symphony in C minor op.3 (1860, lost)
• Symphony No.1 in F major op.29 " Symphony Poétique " (1879 /80)
• Symphony No.2 in C minor op.32 " Symphony tragique " (1882 /83)
• Symphony No.3 in E major op.33 "Symphonie lyrique " (1883 /84)
• Symphony No.4 in C major op.35 " Symphony majestueuse " (1888 /89)
• Symphony No.5 in G minor op.36 " Symphony sérieuse " ( 1889-91 )
• Symphony No.6 in G major op.38 " spiritual symphony " for string orchestra ( 1897)
• Symphony No.7 op.40 " choral symphony " for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra (1898, rev.1901 -06)
• Nordic Suite No.1 in C major op.22 (1871 /72)
• Nordic Suite No.2 in G Minor op.23 ( 1872)
• Nordic Suite No.3 in A minor, op.24 (1873 /74)
• Nordic Suite No.4 in D major op.25 ( 1875 )
• Nordic Suite No.5 in A major op.26 ( 1876 )

• Vocal music " Tovelille " opera op.12 ( 1863-65 )
• " Hjalmar and Ingeborg " opera op.18 (1868 )
• " La vendetta ", opera op.20 (1870 )
• " The traveler ", opera op.21 (1871 )
• " Hymne à la paix " op.17 for solo voices, chorus and large orchestra ( 1867)
• "Christian trilogy" op.31 for baritone, chorus and orchestra (1882 )
• Requiem op.34 (1886 /87)

• Chamber Music Piano Quintet in C minor, Op.6 (1862 )
• Romance for cello and piano (or orchestra) op.27 (1878 )
• Four Preludes for Organ op.39a ( 1905)

• Composer ( romance )
• Danish composer
• Conductor
• Born in 1843
• Died in 1923
• Man