Historical Influences of Music in Denmark
The main influence of the development of music in Denmark has certainly been the monarch, at the period of his coronation in the year 1448...
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The
main influence of the development of music in Denmark has certainly been the
monarch, at the period of his coronation in the year 1448, Christian I engaged
a permanent corps of the trumpeters while in the year 1519, the court had a
corps that sing as well as an instrumental group. The collections of the work
were used by the chapel of the royal under Christian III in the mid-16th
century, which was based on the Dutch, Italian, French and German masters. The Christian
IV spent substantial amount on training the local musicians and bringing foreign
masters to Denmark. The Mogens Pederson, one of his Danish musicians who had
studied in Venice under the Giovanni Gabrieli, became one of the Denmark’s most
significant singers of church music. The principal work of Pratum spiritual was
a collection of 21 Danish hymns in five -units’ settings, a mass in five units,
three Latin motets and a number of Danish and a Latin choral response. This was
published in Copenhagen in 1620 and it is still performed currently.
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Under
the influence of the Louis XIV of France, the music for the theatre was created
in Denmark during the time of Frederik III and Christian V when lavish court
ballets were performed. It later led to the opera and the performance of Der
vereinigte Gotterstreit composed by Povl Christian Schindler on Christian’s
birthday in 1689. Though it was a great success that was little further
interest in the opera after the theatre caught fire a few days and later caused
180 deaths, in 1569 shortly after the reformation of the Denmark the first
hymns book which is known as Thomesens Salmebogm was created with the music for
the individual hymns.
Dieterich
Buxtehude was a German-Danish organist and a highly known singer of the Baroque
at that period, his organ work consists of a central unit of the standard organ
list and were constantly performed at recitals and in the church services but
he is remembered as the first and
foremost for his vocal work.
