Carl Christian Møller (2 June 1823 – 2 April 1893) was a Danish
concertmaster
The concertmaster (from the German language, German ''Konzertmeister''), first chair (U.S.) or leader (UK) is the principal first violin player in an orchestra (clarinet or oboe in a concert band). After the Conducting, conductor, the concertma ...
and
composer
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. His father was a musician and early in his life Carl Christian was hired in the Danish Civil Artillery Music Corps and later became a musician in the 2nd Brigade Music Corps while also playing in
Hans Christian Lumbye
Hans Christian Lumbye (; 2 May 1810 – 20 March 1874) was a Danish composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops, among other things.
Beginnings
As a child, he studied music in Randers and Odense, and by age 14 he was playing the trumpet ...
's orchestra. He participated in the
First Schleswig War
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as a musician but from the 1850s and the rest of his life he worked as leader of different orchestras, initially travelling ensembles but in 1857-64 and 1875-85 he led the orchestra of
Folketeatrets in
Copenhagen
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. From 1875 until his death he was a popular leader of
Tivoli's
concert band
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.
Musical works
Carl Christian Møller composed some 300 works, mostly in the style of
Lumbye or music for concert bands but he has also written ballet and other theater music. Today he may be best known for ''Århus Tappenstreg'' which may paradoxically not entirely be his own composition but is most likely an arrangement of 2 older melodies.
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August Bournonville
August Bournonville (21 August 1805 – 30 November 1879) was a Danish ballet master and choreographer. He was the son of Antoine Bournonville, a dancer and choreographer trained under the French choreographer, Jean Georges Noverre, and the ne ...
, 1876)
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Danish composers
Danish conductors (music)
Danish male conductors (music)
Musicians from Copenhagen
1823 births
1893 deaths
19th-century Danish male musicians