Jørgen Malling

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jørgen Henrik Malling (born October 31, 1836 in Copenhagen ; † July 12, 1905 ) was a Danish composer.

Life

The brother of the composer Otto Malling took lessons from Johan Christian Gebauer . At the age of twenty-five he was the first composer to receive the Anckerske Legat , a scholarship donated by Carl Andreas Ancker , which enabled him to travel to Paris. On this he got to know the notion method of Émile Chevé , for the dissemination of which he campaigned after his return to Denmark on numerous trips and through publications - without much success.

Malling was organist in Svendborg from 1869 to 1872. Then he went to Saint Petersburg, lived for three years in Stockholm and Norrköping and worked after stays a. a. in Vienna and Klagenfurt for thirteen years as a professor of music theory and music aesthetics at the University of Munich . In addition to an Elementaer Musilaer and several song books for school use, Malling published eighty songs, the Christmas piece Naar Traet taendes , the concert piece Tonernas serger for solos, choir and orchestra, the operas Frithiof and Lisinska , the musical drama Küwala , a string quartet and several books with piano pieces. In his second marriage, Malling was married to the painter Jenny Vandel .

literature

Web links