1840-1906
Composer / Conductor of Classical
Christian Frederik Emil Horneman (December 17, 1840 in Copenhagen – June 8, 1906) was a Danish composer, conductor, music publisher, and teacher.Son of the composer Emil Horneman, C. F. E. Horneman studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Ignaz Moscheles, Ernst Friedrich Richter, Moritz Hauptmann, and Julius Rietz. After his return to Denmark he composed divertimenti and opera fantasies and began work on the opera Aladdin, the composition of which occupied him for more than twenty years. The overture, completed in 1864, is Horneman's best known work, along with the four-movement suite drawn from incidental music for the Holger Drachmann drama Gurre (also the basis for Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder).
Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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String Quartet In A Minor, String Quartet In D Major | Daniel Friedrich Rudolph Kuhlau, Christian Frederick Emile Horneman | 1994 | Album |
Dansk Kammermusik 3 | Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Christian Frederick Emile Horneman, Københavns Strygekvartet | 1971 | Album |
Danish Theatre Music | Jean Baptiste Edouard Dupuy, C.E.F. Weyse, Daniel Friedrich Rudolph Kuhlau, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Peter Heise, Christian Frederick Emile Horneman, Det Kongelige Kapel, Johan Hye-Knudsen | Album |