Peter Heise

Peter Heise was an esteemed but conservative amount in Danish Intimate music, a composer important mainly for his many lieder on Danish text messages. He examined music in Copenhagen with Andreas Peter Berggreen, and in Leipzig (1852-1853) with Moritz Hauptmann, although whether these lessons had been private or element of a training course on the Leipzig Conservatory is normally a matter of some dilemma. In 1854, about enough time he released his first assortment of music, he was producing important intellectual connections back Denmark as conductor from the Studenter-Sangforening. 3 years afterwards he got employment as organist and music instructor in Sorø, but relationship to a rich merchant’s daughter place him able to go back to Copenhagen, limit his teaching duties, and focus generally on composing. Educated as he is at Leipzig, Heise created a conventional German visual, and his chamber functions in particular present the strong impact of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schumann; Danish nationalists would declare that the most powerful impact on him was Niels Gade, which quantities to a similar thing. Heise’s last music, extremely expressive and rather free of charge in structure, claim that he might have got eventually gone within a relatively more progressive path had he not really died at age 49. The majority of his tracks, though, abide by earlier models, and so are noted for his or her great lyricism and usage of Danish text messages. Toward the finish of his existence, Heise was success as a author of music for the theatre, largely incidental ratings and ballets, as well as the singspiel Paschaens datter (The Pasha’s Girl). His even more ambitious second opera, Drot og marsk (Ruler and Marshal), created the entire year before his loss of life, is undoubtedly the fantastic masterpiece of Danish nineteenth hundred years opera, although its design owes very much to Weber, Verdi, and Meyerbeer.