Mogens Wöldike
Illustration — Mogens Wöldike in 1940 Mogens Wöldike (5 July 1897 – 20 October 1988) was a Danish conductor, choirmaster, organist, and scholar known for his interpretation of music from the Baroque and Classical periods, was born and died in Copenhagen. His son-in-law was the Haydn scholar Jens Peter Larsen. He studied under Carl Nielsen and Thomas Laub and graduated from Copenhagen University in 1920.
Mogens Wöldike
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- Born
- 1897 · Copenhagen.
- Died
- 1988 · Copenhagen.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Occupation
- organist · conductor · choir director · composer · musician
- Education
- Royal Danish Academy of Music
- Honours
- Knight of the Order of Vasa · Léonie Sonning Music Prize · Ingenio et arti · Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog · Knight of the 1st Class of the Order of the Dannebrog · commander of the Order of the Dannebrog
- Languages
- Danish
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Illustration — Mogens Wöldike in 1940 Mogens Wöldike (5 July 1897 – 20 October 1988) was a Danish conductor, choirmaster, organist, and scholar known for his interpretation of music from the Baroque and Classical periods, was born and died in Copenhagen. His son-in-law was the Haydn scholar Jens Peter Larsen. He studied under Carl Nielsen and Thomas Laub and graduated from Copenhagen University in 1920.
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Mogens Wöldike is recorded as having received Knight of the Order of Vasa, Léonie Sonning Music Prize and Ingenio et arti.
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Mogens Wöldike died at Copenhagen.
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He was organist at the Marine church in 1924 and the Christiansborg Palace Church from 1931; from 1959 to 1972 he was organist at Copenhagen Cathedral. After the war he conducted the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and from 1950 to 1967 worked regularly with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He composed sets of organ chorales published in 1943, 1960 and 1972. He was the founder of the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir. He is the 1976 laureate of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize, the most prestigious musical award in Denmark.
• Masterpieces of Music Before 1750: Haydn Society LP HSE 9039 He left many recordings. After a series of mainly baroque records in the 1930s, he recorded Saul, the St Matthew Passion, Mass in time of War, a number of Haydn symphonies, Nielsen concertos and choral works. He was the choir master of the Copenhagen Boys Choir on the 1953 recording of Britten's "A Ceremony Of Carols", Op.28 with Benjamin Britten conducting. (London LD.9102)
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Mogens Wöldike received Knight of the Order of Vasa, Léonie Sonning Music Prize, Ingenio et arti, Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, Knight of the 1st Class of the Order of the Dannebrog and commander of the Order of the Dannebrog.
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