Johannes Erasmus Iversen (1713 – 28 February 1755) was a
Danish
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Baroque
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composer. He also worked as a teacher, musician, conductor and a concert organizer.
Life
Originally a student at the
University of Copenhagen
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, Iversen chose to make his living as a musician. From 1740, he regularly arranged public concerts together with other performers. This led to the creation of the Musical Society in 1744, which Iversen soon came to lead. The organization was both a musical society and an academy of music.
The Society was closed down in 1749, but soon after Iversen created a new ''Collegium Musicum''. This new society consisted in part of musicians educated by Iversen. When Iversen was appointed
precentor
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in
Vor Frue Kirke, the
cathedral
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of
Copenhagen
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, the concerts by the new society diminished. Iversen himself apparently rarely gave concerts in public after that.
Work
Iversens compositions have apparently been lost, but it is known that he composed several
cantata
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s. The titles of these have been preserved, among them ''Forsynstempelet'' (English: ''Temple of Providence'') from 1747. As cantor at the university, he also composed several works for various festivities at the university. Among these were a cantata from 1752 in memory of
Queen Louise, who was married to King
Frederick V Frederick V or Friedrich V may refer to:
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and died in 1751. Another cantata was composed in honor of the new queen
Juliana Maria, who married Frederick V in 1752. One of his last works was the mourning music over his friend
Ludvig Holberg
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, a famous Danish
playwright
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Etymology
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.
See also
*
List of Danish composers
A list of notable Danish composers:
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* Thorvald Aagaard
*Truid Aagesen
* David Abell
* Hans Abrahamsen
*Aksel Agerby
* Harald Agersnap
* Georg Frederik Ferd ...
References
*''This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia.''
*''This article is edited from an article in the publicly available ''Dansk biografisk Leksikon'', 1905.''
External links
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Danish composers
Male composers
1713 births
1755 deaths
18th-century composers
18th-century male musicians