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Carl Joachim Andersen was a Danish flutist, conductor and composer born in Copenhagen, son of the flutist Christian Joachim Andersen. Both as a virtuoso and as composer of flute music, he is considered one of the best of his time. He was considered to be a tough leader and teacher and demanded as such a lot from his orchestras but through that style he reached a high level.

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Victor Emanuel Bendix was a Jewish Danish composer, conductor and pianist. His teachers included Niels Gade.

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Andreas Peter Berggreen was a Danish composer, organist, and pedagogue.

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Axel Ejnar Hakon Børresen was one of the foremost Danish composers of the 20th century.

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Niels Wilhelm Gade was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. He is considered the most important Danish musician of his day.

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Louis Christian August Glass was a Danish composer.

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Asger Hamerik (Hammerich), was a Danish composer of classical music.

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Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann was a Danish composer. During his lifetime, Hartmann occupied a central place in Danish musical life.

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Peter Heise was a Danish composer, best known for the opera Drot og Marsk.

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Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller was a Danish composer and pianist. His compositional style was influenced by Danish folk music and by the work of Robert Schumann; Johannes Brahms; and his Danish countrymen, including J.P.E. Hartmann.

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Hans Christian Lumbye was a Danish composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops, among other things.

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Franz Xaver Neruda was a Danish cellist and composer of Moravian origin.

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Carl August Nielsen was a Danish composer, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.

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Karl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen was a Danish composer, violinist, conductor, and pianist. Today he is considered as one of the most important Danish composers of the early 1900s.

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Holger Simon Paulli was a Danish conductor and composer. Paulli composed an opera, thirteen ballets, an overture, and pieces for violin and lieder.

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Ludvig Schytte was a Danish composer, pianist, and teacher.