Hilda Sehested
Hilda Sehested (born April 27, 1858 on Gut Broholm near Gudme ; † April 15, 1936 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish pianist and composer .
Life
The daughter of the archaeologist Niels Frederik Bernhard Sehested had piano lessons with Christian Horneman in Copenhagen from 1873 . From 1883 she took lessons in Paris with the pianist and music teacher Louise Aglaé Massart . From 1886 she studied music theory and composition with Orla Rosenhoff ; these lessons continued with interruptions until Rosenhoff's death in 1905.
In the 1890s he wrote his first own compositions in the romantic style. a. Fantasistykker (1891) and Sonate for Pianoforte (1896) published. After her mother's death, she moved to Copenhagen with her sister, the historian Thyra Sehested , in 1894 . Her musical career was interrupted when her fiancé, archaeologist and museum director Henry Petersen died in 1896 a month before the planned wedding.
Sehested worked temporarily as a nurse. In 1899 she completed a private training with the organist of the Frederikskirken , Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod , but did not get a permanent position as an organist. Increasingly she turned back to the composition. It emerged u. a. a piano sonata and an intermezzo for piano trio (1904), the suite for cornet in B flat and piano (1905) and seven books with songs, some of which were performed by the baritone Vilhelm Michelsen.
In 1911 she was one of the founders of the Østerbro Chamber Music Forum , of which she was a director for many years. In 1914 she submitted the opera Agnete og Havmanden based on a libretto by Sophus Michaëlis to the Royal Theater , but the performance was rejected due to the difficult situation in the house due to the war. In contrast, in 1916 Peder Gram successfully performed an orchestrated version of her suite for Cornet in Bb as well as the Miniaturer for Orkester and a Rhapsodi . The Kvartet i G and the string quintet Ensomme Hyrdedrømme were also composed around this time . The Morceau pathétique for trombone and orchestra was published in Paris. In her later works, she turned to Impressionism under the influence of Claude Debussy . Her opera Agnete og Havmanden only had its concert premiere in Odense in 2014, a hundred years after its premiere, which was canceled due to the war.
Of their thirteen siblings, the historian Thyra and the brothers Hannibal and Knud also became known as politicians.
literature
- Sven Lunn: Hilda Sehested. In: Dansk biografisk leksikon . 1984, Retrieved October 16, 2018 .
- Life, work, bibliography and audio samples at composer bases
swell
- Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon - Hilda Sehested
- Naxos - Hilda Sehested
- Classical Composers Database - Hilda Sehested
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agnete og Havmanden - concert premiere 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sehested, Hilda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Well Broholm at Gudme's |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1936 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |