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Christian Frederik Emil Horneman (December 17, 1840 – June 8, 1906) was aDanish composer, conductor, music publisher, and music instructor.[1]
C. F. E. Horneman was born in Copenhagen, the son of the composerEmil Horneman and of Camilla Scheuermann (a cousin of composerEmma Hartmann). He studied at theLeipzig Conservatory withIgnaz Moscheles,Ernst Friedrich Richter,Moritz Hauptmann, andJulius Rietz. After his return to Denmark he composed divertimenti and opera fantasies and began work on the operaAladdin, the composition of which occupied him for more than twenty years. The overture, completed in 1864, is Horneman's best known work, along with the four-movement suite drawn from incidental music for theHolger Drachmann dramaGurre.[2]
Together with composers Gottfred Matthison-Hansen,Edvard Grieg, and others he founded in 1865 the music institute Euterpe to encourage newer Danish music.[3] This was in reaction to the Music Society (Musikforeningen), which was controlled byNiels Wilhelm Gade and was regarded by the younger composers as too conservative. Horneman conducted the organization's concerts.[4][5]
During a trip to Germany in 1867 he wrote hisOuverture héroïque and led a performance of hisAladdin Overture at the Leipzig Gewandhaus.In 1874, together withOtto Malling, he founded the Concert Association (Koncertforeningen) and in 1879 the Horneman music conservatory (Hornemans Konservatorium) that bore his name until its closing in 1920.
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