{"id":533,"date":"2023-03-12T08:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T07:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danishdictioninartsong.dk\/?page_id=533"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:26:42","slug":"hilda-sehested-ny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danishdictioninartsong.dk\/index.php\/portofolio\/hilda-sehested-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"HILDA SEHESTED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1858-1936<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 a woman of means with musical skill<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The potential was there, but death had other ideas: No one envies Hilda Sehested\u2019s fate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She grew up in Broholm manor, with a privileged life. The estate, between Nyborg and Svendborg, had been in the hands of the Sehesteds for centuries, and has remained so up to the present day. As a young man, her father discovered one of Denmark\u2019s greatest ancient gold treasures on the family\u2019s land, and had subsequently turned to archaeology full-time. Two of Hilda\u2019s many brothers became prominent politicians \u2013 one of them prime minister at the turn of the century, the other Denmark\u2019s first minister of agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hilda played the piano. Famous virtuosos who visited the family gave her the desire to take the music more seriously, and so at the age of just 15, she moved to Copenhagen with a view to getting the best tutors, at any price. Her piano teacher became C.F.E. Horneman (1840-1906), with his beautiful theatre music and French-inspired colouring. Her composition teacher was Orla Rosenhoff, who later became Carl Nielsen\u2019s teacher of harmony and counterpoint at the Academy. And since money was no object, she could afford to travel to Paris to take piano lessons from Louise Massart \u2013 the long-time girlfriend of composer Hector Berlioz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idyll seemed boundless \u2013 especially as the woman with the many possibilities and the growing catalogue of works now also found love! Ten years her senior, Henry Petersen of the National Museum had been a professional advisor to her father, and had lost his heart to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then, in 1896, on a holiday, it all went wrong. Her fianc\u00e9 dropped dead, aged 47. The couple had planned to hold their wedding shortly after the holiday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hilda Sehested more or less sank to the bottom in the following years, and her score-writing pen was put away in favour of a vocation as a nurse. It was only after the turn of the century that she turned to playing the organ, and her creative powers returned. The main works of her mature years are her ambitious piano sonata from 1904 and the operaAgnete and the Merman<\/em> from 1914 \u2013 first performed in concert in recent times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sehested had a skilled musical ear, and at the same time showed better craftsmanship than many others. Carl Nielsen, feeling disgruntled after the premiere performance of Sinfonia Espansiva<\/em> in 1911, wrote in his diary: \u201cMiss Sehested understood me best.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u00f8ren<\/strong> Schauser<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Collection<\/th>Op<\/th>No<\/th>Title<\/th>Poet<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
4 Sange<\/td><\/td>1<\/td>Jeg v\u00e9d en Rose<\/a><\/td>Valdemar R\u00f8rdam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4 Sange<\/td><\/td>2<\/td>[Stjernen]<\/td>Kai Hoffmann<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4 Sange<\/td><\/td>3<\/td>Kys<\/a><\/td>Axel Juel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4 Sange<\/td><\/td>3<\/td>[Nadjesda]<\/td>Carl Dumreicher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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