Born in Copenhagen, Rued Langgaard was the only son of composer and Royal Chamber musician Siegfried Langgaard (1852–1914) and Emma Langgaard (née Foss, 1861–1926), both of whom were pianists. At the age of five Rued began taking piano lessons with his mother, and later with his father and a private teacher. His talent emerged quickly, and at seven he was able to play Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze and Chopin’s mazurkas. By then he had begun to compose short pieces for the piano and play the organ. At 10 he began to study the organ under Gustav Helsted, organist at the Jesuskirken in Valby, and the violin under Chr. Petersen, formerly of the Royal Orchestra.
At the age of 11 he made his first public appearance as an organist and improviser on the organ at a concert at the Frederikskirken (Marmorkirken) in Copenhagen. When he was 12, he started to study music theory under C. F. E. Horneman and, later, Vilhelm Rosenberg.
Langgaard’s first compositions, 2 piano pieces and 2 songs, were published when he was 13, and around that time he was taught counterpoint by the celebrated composer Carl Nielsen for about a month. A year later, his choral work Musae triumphantes was performed at a concert in Copenhagen, marking his public debut as a composer. During his teen years he continued composing and travelled with his parents around Christmas and New Year’s Eve, meeting conductors Arthur Nikisch and Max Fiedler.
At 18, Langgaard served as assistant organist at the Frederikskirken (Marmorkirken) in Copenhagen. The following year (1913) his Symphony No. 1 "Mountain Pastorals" received its first performance at a concert in Berlin with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Max Fiedler.
His father died in 1914, and from 1915 to 1917 he was assistant organist at the Garnisons Kirke in Copenhagen. From 1917 onward he applied without success for the post of organist at a large number of churches in Copenhagen. In 1922 a young woman named Valborg Constance Olivia Tetens (she was known as Constance) moved in with Rued Langgaard and his mother in Copenhagen. A year after his mother died in 1926, Langgaard married Constance Tetens.
Although Langgaard was given a state grant from the age of 30, his works and job applications were almost continually rejected by the establishment. Only at the age of 46 did he manage to obtain a permanent job, as the organist at the cathedral in Ribe, the oldest town in Denmark, situated in southwest Jutland. Just shy of his 59th birthday, Rued Langgaard died in Ribe, still unrecognized as a composer.
Vol. 1-3
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Music score
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Score (Hardcover)
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Score
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Klassik
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Music score
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Score
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Score
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Version 1937/44
for: Choir
Choir score
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Oper/Operette
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Piano reduction
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Morgen
Choir score
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Prelude [koncertversion]
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Score
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Geistliche Musik
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Music score
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Score
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POD
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Music score
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Klassik
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Score
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Klassik
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Score
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Score
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for: Voice
Score
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Lille Kvartet
for: Brass ensemble
Score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
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German Vocal Score
for: Voice, SATB and Piano
Piano reduction
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Choir score
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for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, Parts
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Piano Works
for: Piano
Music score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
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Ribe-Sørgemarch
for: Woodwind ensemble
Score
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Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Klassik
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Set of parts
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Set of parts
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Klassik
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Score
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Score
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Klassik
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Score
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Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
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Autumn'
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Lille Kvartet
for: Brass ensemble
Score
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for: Violin, organ
Score, Parts
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for: Voice (soprano), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: SATB
Buch
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Score
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Score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: SATB
Buch
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Festmarch
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Score
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for: Concert band
Score
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Hymnen und Choräle
for: Women's Choir [SMezA], Mixed Choir [SATB] and Orchestra
Piano reduction
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From Organ Drama In Three Evenings
for: Organ
Music score
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