Irene Skovgaard Explained
Irene Georgia Skovgaard (December 2, 1902 - March 12, 1982) was a Danish[1] writer, composer,[2] and music educator who specialized in recorder music and canons, and belonged to the Skovgaard family of artists.[3] [4] [5]
Skovgaard was one of eight children born to Ingeborg Luplau Møller and the painter Niels Kristian Skovgaard. Her grandfather was Peter Christian Skovgaard, the well-known Danish landscape painter. She studied piano and voice at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, finishing in 1930.[6]
In 1939, Skovgaard and Werner Wolf Glaser opened a School of Music in Lyngbby, Denmark.[7] Skovgaard collaborated with Glaser, as well as with her brother Hjalte Skovgaard, on several publications (see below).
Skovgaard’s works were published by Imudico and Skandinavisk Musikforlag.[8] They include:
Book
- Et Kunstnerhjem : Niels Skovgaards Hjem paa Karlsberg ved Hillerød (An Artist's Home: Niels Skovgaard's Home on Karlsberg near Hillerød)
Music
- 150 Newer Canons
- 150 Older Canons[9]
- Blokflojteskole (Recorder Method)[10]
- Blokfløjteskole : Tillæg (Recorder Method Supplement)
- Fuglene synger : 20 Kanon'er (The Birds Sing: 20 Canons; with Werner Wolf Glaser and Hjalte Skovgaard; text by Irene Skovgaard)
- Tolv Juleviser (Twelve Christmas Poems; collected and translated by Irene Skovgaard edited by Werner Wolf Glaser)[11]
- “Uret Siger Tiketakke” (The Clock Says Tick Tock)
Notes and References
- Book: Cohen, Aaron I. . International Encyclopedia of Women Composers . 1987 . Books & Music (USA) . 978-0-9617485-2-4 . en.
- Book: Hixon, Donald L. . Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography . 1993 . Scarecrow Press . Don A. Hennessee . 0-8108-2769-7 . 2nd . Metuchen, N.J. . 28889156.
- Web site: Skovgaard . Irene Georgia . geni.com . 2022-03-03 . geni_family_tree . en-US.
- Web site: Skovgaard . Irene Georgia . myheritage.com . 2022-03-03 . www.myheritage.com.
- Web site: Skovgaard . Irene Georgia . Skovgaard-familien . da . 2022-03-26 . www.skovgaardmuseet.dk . 2022-01-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220118183037/https://www.skovgaardmuseet.dk/skovgaard-familien/ . dead .
- Book: Berg, Sigurd . Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium, 1917-1953 . 1959 . Det Berlingske bogtrykkeri . da.
- Web site: Glaser, Werner Wolf Encyclopedia.com . 2022-03-03 . www.encyclopedia.com.
- Web site: Skovgaard . Irene Georgia . worldcat.org . 2022-03-03 . www.worldcat.org . en.
- Book: Acta Musicologica . 1950 . Breitkopf & Härtel . de.
- Web site: Irene Skovgård: Blokfløjteskole . 2022-03-03 . Presto Music . en.
- Book: Århus . Statsbiblioteket i . Danish music . Clausen . Per Groth . 1977 . Universitetsforlaget i Aarhus . 978-87-504-0392-0 . da.