Hilda Sehested

Hilda Sehested (* April 27, 1858 on Good Broholm at Gudme, † April 15, 1936 in Copenhagen) was a Danish pianist and composer.

Life

The daughter of the archaeologist Niels Frederik Bernhard Sehested had from 1873 in Copenhagen piano lessons with Christian Horneman. Beginning in 1883, she took lessons in Paris at the pianist and music teacher Louise Aglaé Massart. From 1886 she studied music theory and composition with Orla Rose Hoff; This module continued intermittently until about Rose Hoff's death in 1905.

In the 1890s, his first compositions emerged in the romantic style, of which, inter alia, Fantasistykker (1891 ) and Sonata for Piano Forte (1896 ) appeared in print. After her mother's death in 1894 she moved with her ​​sister, the historian Thyra Sehested, to Copenhagen. Her musical career was interrupted when her fiancé, an archaeologist and museum director Henry Petersen 1896 died one months before the scheduled wedding.

Sehested worked for a time as a nurse. In 1899 she completed a private training with the organist of Frederikskirken, Ludvig Birkedal - Barfod, but got no steady job as an organist. Increasingly, they turned back to the composition. It originated among others a piano sonata and an Intermezzo for Piano Trio ( 1904), the Suite for Cornet in Bb and piano (1905 ) and seven books with songs, some of William Michelsen were listed.

In 1911 she was one of the founders of the Østerbro Kammermusikforening, whose board it was for many years. In 1914 she presented at the Royal Theatre, the Opera Agnete og Havmanden to a libretto by Sophus Michaëlis one whose performance was rejected with regard to the difficult Situiation of the house by the war. In addition, upon Peder Gram 1916 with success an instrumented version of their suite for Cornet in B and Miniaturer for Orkester and a Rhapsodi on. Around this time also came the Kvartet i G and the Streichquinetett Ensomme Hyrdedrømme. The Morceau pathétique for trombone and orchestra appeared in Paris in pressure. In her later works she turned under the influence of Claude Debussy's impressionism to.

Of her thirteen siblings in addition to the historian Thyra the brothers Hannibal and Knud were known as a politician.

Swell

  • Danks kvindebiografisk leksikon - Hilda Sehested
  • Naxos - Hilde Sehested
  • Classical Composers Database - Hilde Sehested
  • Classic pianist
  • Danish composer
  • Born in 1858
  • Died in 1936
  • Woman
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