Christen Schiellerup Købke was a Danish painter, and one of the best known artists from the Golden Age of Danish Painting.
Carl Christian Constantin Hansen was one of the painters associated with the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He was deeply interested in literature and mythology, and inspired by art historian Niels Laurits Høyen, he tried to recreate a national historical painting based on Norse mythology. He painted also many altarpieces and portraits, including the monumental oil painting The Danish Constituent Assembly between 1861 and 1865.
Niels Wilhelm Gade was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. He is considered the most important Danish musician of his day.
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark.
Otto Valdemar Malling was a Danish composer, from 1900 the cathedral organist in Copenhagen and from 1889 professor, then from 1899 Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen.
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann was, together with his son-in-law Niels W. Gade, the leading Danish composer of the 19th century. J.P.E. Hartmann was the third generation of composers in the Danish musical Hartmann family.
Franz Adolf Syberg was a Danish composer.
Niels Finn Høffding was a Danish composer. Høffding studied composition under Knud Jeppesen and Thomas Laub, and then under Joseph Marx in Vienna from 1921-22. His works first became well known in Denmark in the 1920s, particularly the piece Karlsvognen. He began to study folk music about 1930, and founded the Copenhagen School of Folk Music in 1931. From 1931 he also taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he served as director after 1954. In 1956 and 1958 he was awarded the Nielsen Prize. His pupils include Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Vagn Holmboe, Bent Lorentzen, and Leif Thybo. See: List of music students by teacher: G to J#Finn Høffding.
Emilius Bangert was a Danish composer, organist, and professor. He played the organ at Roskilde Cathedral and also composed orchestral and chamber music.
Jørgen Ditleff Bondesen was a Danish composer and music theorist.
Amalia Emma Sophie Hartmann née Zinn was a Danish composer who composed under the pseudonym Frederik H. Palmer. She was married to the composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805–1900). They lived on the second floor in the Zinn House at Kvæsthusgade 3 in Copenhagen.
Frederik Rung was a Danish conductor and composer.
August Winding was a Danish pianist, teacher and composer.
Syddansk Musikkonservatorium - Danish National Academy of Music, as it is now known, is located in Esbjerg, Denmark, opposite St Nikolaj Church. Founded in 1946 as a local private initiative, it was first known as Vestjysk Musikkonservatorium. In 1972, it was taken over by the national authorities.
Musikforeningen in Copenhagen was Denmark's most important concert venue in the 19th century. It operated from 1838 to 1931 but it was especially under the leadership of Niels Gade (1850–90) that it became a meeting place for the city's music life with its own symphony orchestra and choir. Carl Nielsen was director from 1915–27. Other leaders included Franz Gläser, Emil Hartmann and Franz Neruda.
Dan Fog was a Danish music antiquarian and publisher who is remembered principally for his Danish music catalogues and biographies of Scandinavian composers.
Niels Johannes Fjord, often referred to as N. J. Fjord, was a Danish Professor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University. He was a pioneer in dairy and milk research in the mid-1800s. He was a driving force and the first leader of the Landøkonomisk Førsøgslaboratorium on Rolighedsvej in 1883.
Niels Lunde Reiersen was a Danish government official, merchant, silk manufacturer, landowner and philanthropist. He was the owner of the Royal Danish Silk Manufactury in Copenhagen (1775-1796) as well as a founding partner of the leading trading firm De Coninck & Reiersen (1775-1790). Reiersen owned Nysø Manor, Oremandsgaard Manor and Lilliendal Manor as well as the estates at Jungshoved and Høfdinggård on Southern Zealand.
The Danish Music Museum is located in Rosenørns Alle 22 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The building is shared with the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Ellen Bodil Neergaard née Hartmann was a Danish estate owner, philanthropist and patron of the arts. She is remembered for her life in Fuglsang Manor on the island of Lolland where, together with her husband Rolf Viggo de Neergaard, she hosted every Summer prominent artists and musicians. Following her husband's death in 1915, she had an additional building constructed to provide a roof for needy men until they could find employment. Each Summer, she invited elderly women from Copenhagen to spend a few weeks on her country estate and arranged a holiday camp for some 50 boys near Guldborgsund. Her philanthropic activities were numerous.
