Emilius Bangert
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Emilius Bangert was a Danish
Denmark
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 composer
Composer
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 and professor.

Biography

Emilius Ferdinand Caspar Bangert was born in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
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, the son of Conrad Bangert and Ida Anderson. In 1902, he graduated from Borgerdydskolen (School of Civic Virtue), Copenhagen’s most prestigious private school. He acquired a cand. phil. degree in 1903. He was a private pupil in theory and composition with Carl Nielsen
Carl Nielsen
Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...

 1902-07. He contributed several times to compositions that Nielsen had received orders for either transcript, instrumentation, or directly as a composer. Emilius Bangert also had piano lessons with Henrik Knudsen and organ lessons with Edgar Henrichsen
Edgar Henrichsen
Edgar Henrichsen was a Danish composer and organist. He was the brother of Roger Henrichsen, and was a student of Gustav Helsted and Alexandre Guilmant.-References:...

 and Eugene Gigout
Eugène Gigout
Eugène Gigout was a French organist and a composer of European late-romantic music for organ.-Biography:Gigout was born in Nancy, and died in Paris....

 in Paris
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. In 1913 he received the Ancker Award scholarship (Det anckerske Legat) and went on study tour to Germany
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 and Italy
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In 1908 he took the exam organist. From 1915, he was organist at various churches, the first being Skovshoved church (Skovshoved kirke) and the last being Roskilde Cathedral (Roskilde Domkirke) to 1955. In the years 1908-09, he conducted Bangert Academic Orchestra. From 1912, he was music critic for the Copenhagen newspaper Hovedstaden. He taught organ at the Royal Danish Academy of Music (Danske Musikkonservatoriumfrom) in 1925 and was a professor from 1949-55.

His compositions included a symphony, overture, string quartet, sonatas, choral works and songs. Emilius Bangert transcribed music composations by Diderik Hansen Buxtehude and published it in 1942. Today the original transcriptions are in the Royal Danish Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek). Emilius Bangert was made a Knight of the first degree of Order of the Dannebrog
Order of the Dannebrog
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Selected works

  • Violinsonate i c-mol (1905)
  • Strygekvartet i D-dur (1906)
  • Symfoni i C-dur (1907)
  • Willemoes (1908) - with Carl Nielsen
  • Kantate ved landsudstillingen i Århus (1909) - with Carl Nielsen
  • en række sange (1910)
  • Jeg vælger mig april (koncertouverture) (1913)
  • Violinsonate i A-dur (1926)

Other sources

  • Buxtehude, Dietrich Klavervaerker / udg. af Emilius Bangert (Wilhelm Hansen. 1944)
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