{"id":555,"date":"2023-03-12T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T07:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danishdictioninartsong.dk\/?page_id=555"},"modified":"2023-12-14T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T08:56:56","slug":"peter-erasmus-lange-muller-ny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danishdictioninartsong.dk\/index.php\/portofolio\/peter-erasmus-lange-muller-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"PETER ERASMUS LANGE-M\u00dcLLER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1850-1926<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 the chronically ill man behind some of Denmark\u2019s most frequently heard melodies <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He created the fantastic melody of the bells of the Copenhagen Town Hall clock with just four<\/em> notes, and some of the finest songs in Danish music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.E. Lange-M\u00fcller suffered from poor health all his life. Migraines, in particular, incapacitated him for long periods of time. The doctors regarded an eye disease as the cause of the pain \u2013 and they even tried a treatment as ancient as trepanning<\/em> on him to relieve it! He initially applied to study political science, and then for an apprenticeship as a gardener, with a dream of a peaceful life.

Nonetheless, the Academy received an application from him in 1871 \u2013 the intense interest in music of everyone in his childhood home had finally won out! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lange-M\u00fcller\u2019s debut three years later, with songs based on Sulamith and Salomon<\/em> by B.S. Ingemann was truly an \u201copus 1\u201d to be reckoned with.

Lange-M\u00fcller\u2019s early style remains a \u2018mild\u2019 Romanticism. All of his melodies have clear lines and tastefully rounded phrases. Subsequently, however, he began to move more in the direction of avant-garde trends: His songs became either airier, with a wave to Impressionism, or alternatively, spicier. The development culminated in the opera And the burgeoning music to the 1887 fairy tale play Der var engang (\u2018Once Upon a Time\u2019)<\/em> by the poet and Skagen painter Holger Drachmann brought him his popular breakthrough. The piece is particularly strong in the Serenade with its moods of French classicism, and in the final chorus Midsommervise (\u2018Midsummer Song\u2019)<\/em> \u2013 which all Danes now attempt to sing on Midsummer\u2019s Eve each year. Vikingeblod (\u2018Viking Blood\u2019)<\/em> from 1900 with its echoes of Richard Wagner\u2019s musical dramas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His late style was perceived by his contemporaries as \u2018old-fashioned<\/em>\u2019, and was given an increasingly indulgent reception by the opinion-makers of the day. In the next generation, a colleague like Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) would compose with something of the same pathos, and would hear the same kind of criticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The increasingly apathetic P.E. Lange-M\u00fcller ended up beloved by the people and forgotten by the cultural elite. The so-called \u2018watchman song\u2019<\/em> of the Copenhagen town hall clock from 1905, which chimes at noon, 6:00 pm and midnight, became his swan song. He spent his final years without artistic activity at the country house of Sophienberg, near Rungsted \u2013 an heirloom from his parents-in-law.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collection<\/th>Op<\/th>No<\/th>Title<\/th>Poet<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Sulamith og Salomon<\/td>1<\/td>1<\/td>Sulamiths sang i vinhaven<\/a><\/td>Bernhard S. Ingemann<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sulamith og Salomon<\/td>1<\/td>2<\/td>[Sulamiths sang i skovduelunden]<\/td>Bernhard S. Ingemann<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sulamith og Salomon<\/td>1<\/td>3<\/td>[Salomons sang med brevduen]<\/td>Bernhard S. Ingemann<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sulamith og Salomon<\/td>1<\/td>4<\/td>[Sulamiths sang paa bjergtoppen]<\/td>Bernhard S. Ingemann<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sulamith og Salomon<\/td>1<\/td>5<\/td>[Sulamiths sang paa bjergene]<\/td>Bernhard S. Ingemann<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tre Digte<\/td>4<\/td>1<\/td>[Lind]<\/td>Vilhelm Bergs\u00f8e<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tre Digte<\/td>4<\/td>2<\/td>Aakande<\/a><\/td>Vilhelm Bergs\u00f8e<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tre Digte<\/td>4<\/td>3<\/td>[Viol]<\/td>Vilhelm Bergs\u00f8e<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I Mester Sebalds Have<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>Gjenboens f\u00f8rste Vise<\/a><\/td>Sophus Bauditz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skumring<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>[Dybt i Skumring]<\/td>Alexis Tolstoy\/Thor Lange<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skumring<\/td>20<\/td>2<\/td>[Se, som skygger henad Himlen]<\/td>Alexis Tolstoy\/Thor Lange<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skumring<\/td>20<\/td>3<\/td>En Rand af diset Hede<\/a><\/td>Alexis Tolstoy\/Thor Lange<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skumring<\/td>20<\/td>4<\/td>[Under Sneen begrave det visnede Gr\u00e6s]<\/td>Alexis Tolstoy\/Thor Lange<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Der var engang<\/td>25<\/td>3<\/td>Serenade<\/a><\/td>Holger Drachmann<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vandringsmandens sange<\/td>77<\/td>1<\/td>Jeg vandrer ad den vej<\/a><\/td>Carl Bahnson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vandringsmandens sange<\/td>77<\/td>2<\/td>[Der blomstrer ei saa liden Blomst]<\/td>Carl Bahnson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vandringsmandens sange<\/td>77<\/td>3<\/td>[Herre, er det Dig, der kommer]<\/td>Carl Bahnson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vandringsmandens sange<\/td>77<\/td>4<\/td>[Mit Haab, Du var som den vildfarne Fugl]<\/td>Carl Bahnson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vandringsmandens sange<\/td>77<\/td>5<\/td>[Som en d\u00e6mpet Klang af dybe Str\u00e6nge]<\/td>Carl Bahnson<\/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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