voc, 1857-1928
Singer / Musician / Composer / Conductor
Sextus Miskow (3 February 1857 in Nyborg – 24 November 1928) was a Danish singer, composer and music critic.After 2 years in the army pupil school from 1871, Miskow changed tracks and continued his studies in violin and piano, and from 1876 to 1879 was taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Here he concentrated on singing lessons with Carl Helsted as a teacher, and he made his debut as a bass singer at the Royal Theatre in 1880. He was never on the staff of the theater and worked since as a singing teacher and as a concert singer. At times he was also a music critic, including by Berlingske Tidende, Denmark's oldest newspaper, in the years 1903–1914, and choral conductor of the Copenhagen Workers' Choir, which he founded in 1915. Moreover, he began to compose.