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String Quartets

Niels W. Gade

String Quartets

Copenhagen String Quartet

Niels W. Gade is one of the most prominent representatives of High Romanticism in Danish music. As a young man Gade had a meteoric career in Leipzig, where he succeeded Mendelssohn in 1847 as conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. But in 1848 he settled down in Copenhagen, where he remained active as a composer, conductor, organist and teacher until his death. Although Gade is primarily known for his orchestral and choral works, he also composed a number of excellent chamber music works, including the three quartets on this CD.

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Total runtime: 
61 min.
Release date: 
July 1995
Cat. No.: 
8.224015
FormatID: 
CD
CoverFormat: 
Jewel Case
Barcode: 
0730099971522
Track count: 
12

Credits

Previously released on CD by DMA
Recorded in Copenhagen 1963 and 1968

Sound engineer: Helge Albrechtsen
Digital editing: Claus Byrith

Cover picture: J. Th. Lundbye: Gåsetårnet i Vordingborg" (1842), by courtesy of Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen"

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