Børresen, Hakon

Børresen, Hakon

Symphony No. 3 in C major op. 21

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Preface

Axel Ejnar Hakon Børresen – Symphony No. 3 in C major op. 21

(b. June 2, 1876 in Copenhagen – d. October 6, 1954 in Copenhagen)

Preface
Hakon Børresen is one of the many late Romantic composers who have been completely forgotten since the second half of the 20th century, joining the ranks of colleagues such as August Enna, Ludolf Nielsen, Asger Hamerik and Rued Langgaard. Børresen dwarfed some of his contemporaries, and not just because of his height of around two meters.

Børresen was born into a well-to-do Copenhagen family on June 2, 1876. His ancestors came from Norway, but his grandfather had already moved to Denmark, where he settled as a tailor and soon after became purveyor to the royal court. Hakon Børresen’s father took over the business and – as was customary for children of the fairly wealthy bourgeoisie – his son received lessons in piano, violin and cello playing as well as some theory lessons. At the age of 19, Hakon was certain that he wanted to become a composer. His father was delighted with this decision, but in order to ensure the future viability of his plans, he wanted to get the opinion of an established composer about his son. The choice fell on Johan Svendsen, a well-known composer and conductor of the royal orchestra. A meeting was arranged and Børresen showed the respected musician a few pages of his work “Thor kører til Jotunheimen” [Thor goes to Jotunheim]. This caught Svendsen’s attention. As a result, Børresen received composition lessons from Svendsen for the next four to five years, who also arranged the important contact with Edvard Grieg for his pupil. …

 

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Score Data

Score Number

4978

Edition

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Genre

Orchestra

Pages

122

Size

210 x 297 mm

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