Rued Langgaard
Born: July 28, 1893; Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: 1952; Ribe
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Regarded as an outsider and an oddball during his lifetime, Rued Langgaard spent his entire career at odds with the Danish musical establishment; his last great public success was when the Berlin Philharmonic played his massive Symphony No. 1 when he was 20 years old. Obscurity ensued until about the time of his centennary, when record labels determined to record everything ever written systematically brought his music to a more appreciative
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Adorazione, BVN 223 (1)
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Album Leaf, BVN 3 (1)
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Andante religioso for Violin and Organ, BVN 407 (1)
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Antikrist/Fortabelsen (4)
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Antikrist/Fortabelsen: Prelude (1)
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As Lightning Cometh Christ Again, BVN 341 (1)
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Ascension Day, for organ, BVN 264 (1)
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At the End of Time, BVN 243 (2)
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At the Funeral of Axel Gade, for organ, BVN 227 (1)
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Aubade for Violin and Piano, BVN 23 (1)
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Be exalted, O god, BVN 294 (1)
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Buried, for organ, BVN 279 (1)
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Carl Nielsen, Our Great Composer, BVN 355b (1)
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Concerto for Piano, BVN 29 "From Arild" (1)
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Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, BVN 82 (2)
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Death is the last enemy, BVN 239-40 (1)
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Death of a Hero (1)
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Drapa, BVN 20 (4)
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Écrasez l'infâme, BVN 385 (1)
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Fantasy for Piano, BVN 327 "Insanity" (2)
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Fantasy Sonata, BVN 228 (1)
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Fire-Chambers, BVN 221 (1)
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Flower Vignettes, Set 1, BVN 56 (2)
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Flower Vignettes, Set 2, BVN 424 (2)
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Flower Vignettes, Set 2, BVN 424: no 2, Aakande (1)
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For a thousand years the Church of Christ, BVN 345 (1)
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From the Deep, BVN 414 (2)
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From the Song of Songs, BVN 381 (1)
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Gijantali Hymns, BVN 149 (1)
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Harvest Prelude, for organ, BVN 250 (1)
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Hvidbjerg-Drapa, BVN 343 (3)
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Hymn, BVN 295 (1)
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In a Churchyard at Night, BVN 22 (1)
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In memoriam Ansgarius, BVN 286 (1)
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In ténebras exteriores, BVN 334 (2)
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In the morning, BVN 428 (1)
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Insektarium, BVN 134 (1)
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Interdikt, BVN 335 (2)
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Lied(er) (1)
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Mariæ Bebudelse, for organ, BVN 262 (1)
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Messis, BVN 228 (2)
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Mountain Flowers, BVN 34 (1)
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Music of the Abyss, BVN 169 "A Sonata" (2)
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Music of the Hél-Spheres, BVN 371 (1)
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Music of the Spheres, BVN 128 (3)
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Night on the Sound, BVN 21 (1)
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O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, BVN 310 (1)
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O, thank God the road leads homewards, BVN 65 (1)
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Piano Piece in E major, BVN 426 (1)
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Preludio patetico, BVN 55 (1)
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Quartet for Strings no 3, BVN 183 (1)
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Remembrances of Summer, BVN 254 (2)
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Res absúrda!?, BVN 354 (3)
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Ribe Early Morning (1)
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Rise, ye Christians, prepare for war!, BVN 290 (1)
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Rose Garden Songs (3), BVN 164 (2)
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Shadow Life, BVN 307 (1)
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Short Sonata for Violin and Piano, BVN 372 (1)
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Sonata for Piano no 3, BVN 268 "Memories of Harvest Time" (1)
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Sonata for Violin and Piano no 1, BVN 94 "Viole" (1)
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Sonata for Violin and Piano no 2, BVN 167 "Den store Mester kommer" (1)
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Sonata for Violin and Piano no 3, BVN 312 (1)
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Sonata for Violin and Piano no 4, BVN 376 "Parce nobis, Jesu!" (1)
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Songs (3) (1)
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Sphinx, BVN 37 (4)
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Stambogsblad, BVN 38 (1)
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Summer Holidays in Blekinge, BVN 123 (2)
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Symphony no 1, BVN 32 "Pastorals of the Rocks" (5)
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Symphony no 10, BVN 298 "Hin Torden-Bolig" (4)
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Symphony no 11, BVN 303 "Ixion" (3)
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Symphony no 12, BVN 318 "Hélsingeborg" (4)
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Symphony no 13, BVN 319 "Undertro" (4)
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Symphony no 14, BVN 336 "Morning" (5)
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Symphony no 15, BVN 375 "The Storm at Sea" (4)
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Symphony no 16, BVN 417 "Sun Deluge" (4)
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Symphony no 2, BVN 53 "Vaarbrud" (4)
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Symphony no 3, BVN 96 "Ungdomsbrus" (4)
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Symphony no 4, BVN 124 "Fall" (6)
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Symphony no 5, BVN 216 "Steppenatur" (5)
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Symphony no 6, BVN 165 "Det Himmelrivende" (5)
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Symphony no 7, BVN 212 "Ved Tordenskjold i Holmens Kirke" (3)
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Symphony no 8, BVN 193 "Memories at Amalienborg" (3)
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Symphony no 9, BVN 282 "From the City of Queen Dagmar" (3)
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The Danish National Radio Fanfares, BVN 351 (3)
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The great master is coming, BVN 240 (1)
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The Harvest Bird, BVN 141a (1)
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The most excellent road, BVN 390 (1)
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The Shieling Girl, BVN 114 (1)
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Tone Pictures (4), BVN 133 (1)
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Tones of Temptation, BVN 112 (1)
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Wedding March, for organ, BVN 277 (1)
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When it thunders from the cloud of darkness, BVN 423 (1)
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When life's pilgrimage, BVN 323 (1)
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When, one day in distant future, BVN 90 (1)
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Biography |
by James Reel
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Regarded as an outsider and an oddball during his lifetime, Rued Langgaard spent his entire career at odds with the Danish musical establishment; his last great public success was when the Berlin Philharmonic played his massive Symphony No. 1 when he was 20 years old. Obscurity ensued until about the time of his centennary, when record labels determined to record everything ever written systematically brought his music to a more appreciative international public.
Langgaard received his first musical training from his parents and private teachers. He made his debut as an improvising organist at age 11 in Copenhagen, and four years later he turned heads with an ambitious cantata. During his teens, his parents frequently took him to Berlin; their contacts there led to the Berlin Philharmonic performance of his first symphony. The Germans maintained an interest in the reserved young composer's extroverted music, but the Danes would have none of it. Langgaard launched an attack on the musical establishment as well as on modernism when the Copenhagen Royal Theater rejected his opera Antikrist in 1925. His opposition to the dominant culture, as well as his mystical-symbolist religious tendencies, did nothing to advance his career. Only in 1940 was he able to land a job as an organist in the provincial town of Ribe, a safe distance from Copenhagen culture.
Langgaard wrote more than 400 works; they were Straussian pieces until 1916, but then more along the lines of Nielsen with a hint of Hindemith until 1924. From that second period emerged his fourth and sixth symphonies, Antikrist, and the second and third quartets. The years 1925-1945, oddly, brought a return to Wagnerian Romanticism with such works as Messis (Harvest Time); the music of this time is, to put it mildly, structurally incoherent, yet powerfully expressive. In his final years, Langgaard adopted a desperate, half-mad style even more dependent on collage and fragmentation than his earlier music. It was this music that began to interest avant-garde composers of the 1960s, but the full range of Langgaard's work did not become widely known until the 1990s. |
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