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NIELS WILHELM See also: born at See also: Copenhagen, on the 22nd of See also: February 1817, his See also: father being a musical instrument maker
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He was intended for his father's See also: trade, but his passion for a musician's career, made evident by the ease and skill with which he learnt to See also: play upon a number of See also: instruments, was not to be denied
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Though he became proficient on the See also: violin under Wexschall, and in the elements of theory under Weyse and Berggreen, he was to a See also: great extent self-taught
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His opportunities of hearing and playing in the great masterpieces were many, since he was a member of the See also: court See also: band
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In 184o his Aladdin and his See also: overture of See also: Ossian attracted See also: attention, and in 1841 his Nachklange aus Ossian overture gained the See also: local musical society's prize, the See also: judges being See also: Spohr and Schneider
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This See also: work also attracted the See also: notice of the See also: king, who gave the composer a
See also: stipend which enabled him to go to See also: Leipzig and See also: Italy
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In 1844 See also: Gade conducted the Gewandhaus concerts in Leipzig during Mendelssohn's See also: absence, and on the latter's See also: death became chief conductor
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In 1848, on the outbreak of the Holstein War, he returned to Copenhagen, where he was appointed organist and conductor of the Musik-Verein
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In 1852 he married a daughter of the composer J
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P
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E
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Hartmann
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He became court conductor in 1861, and was pensioned by the See also: government in 1876—the See also: year in which he visited See also: Birmingham to conduct his Crusaders
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This work, and the Fruhlingsfantasie, the Erlkonigs Tochter, Fruhlingsbotschaft and See also: Psyche (written for Birmingham in 1882) have enjoyed a wide popularity
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Indeed, they represent the strength and the weakness of Gade's musical ability quite as well as any of his eight symphonies (the best of which are the first and See also: fourth, while the fifth has an See also: obbligato pianoforte See also: part)
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Gade was distinctly a romanticist, but his See also: music is highly polished and beautifully finished, lyrical rather than dramatic and effective
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Much of the pianoforte music, Aquarellen, Spring See also: Flowers, for instance, enjoyed a considerable vogue, as did the Novelletten trio; but Gade's See also: opera Mariotla has not been heard outside the Copenhagen opera See also: house
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He died at Copenhagen on the 21st of See also: December ago
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