Peter William Jerndorff (24 November 1842 – 23 December 1926) was a Danish stage actor and opera singer. Amongst the roles he created were Dr. Rank in Ibsen's 1879 play ''

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'' and Leonard in

Carl Nielsen Carl August Nielsen (; 9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a Danish composer, conductor, and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer. Brought up by poor yet musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he d ...

's 1906 opera ''

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''. Towards the end of his career he taught diction and acting and appeared in

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's 1922 silent film ''Der var engang'' (''Once Upon a Time''). His students included the Danish opera singers

Lauritz Melchior Lauritz Melchior (20 March 1890 – 18 March 1973) was a Danish-American opera singer. He was the preeminent Wagnerian heldentenor of the 1920s through the 1940s and has come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type. Late in his car ...

and

Vilhelm Herold Vilhelm Christoffer Herold (born March 19, 1865 – December 15, 1937) was an operatic tenor, voice teacher, and theatre director. Herold created the role of David in Carl Nielsen's opera '' Saul og David'' in 1902). Career Herold was born in Ha ...

. Jerndoff died in

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, the city of his birth, at the age of 84.Blangstrup Christian (ed.) (1915–1930
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'' 2nd Edition Vo]. 13, p. 32 Emmons, Shirlee (1990). ''Tristanissimo: The Authorized Biography of Heroic Tenor Lauritz Melchior'', p. 336. Schirmer Books.

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