Adolph Julius Eggers (23 January 1859 – 16 December 1919) was a Danish

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and

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Life and career

Eggers was an organ pupil of Peter Schram, Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, P. Rasmussen and A. Rüdinger. In 1880 he became organ substitute in Trinity Church. In 1905 he was cantor at Sankt Matthæus Church in

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, where he succeeded

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, and in 1910 at Holmens Church, where he succeeded

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. In 1904 he received the Ancker Scholarship and traveled to

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and

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on a study trip. During his lifetime, he performed some larger compositions for choir or orchestra, but he is remembered today above all for a large number of publications for one and two guitars. These are arrangements of other composers' music or accompaniment to songs.

Works

List of musical works from Eggers: *Suite pastorale (orchestra) *up. 5 Train of Dionysus (orchestra) *Kong Volmer (orchestra, including choir and tenor) *up. 7 Serenade (wind quintet and harp) *up. 8 Music for the Play Inez of Coimbra (based on Portuguese folk tunes) *Hubertusfesten (ballet) *12 Spanish Dances and Melodies (guitar and mandolin) *Selected Compositions (guitar) *Fingal (tragic song drama) *Kinfo (operetta) *Les Cloches de Copenhague (among other things for concert band)

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*''This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia.'' Danish composers Danish male composers 1859 births 1919 deaths {{Denmark-composer-stub

Life and career

Works

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