Ludvig Gade born in (16 April 1823 in

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–7 April 1897 in

) was a

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dancer and

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. Ludvig Gade was Director of

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1877–1890 . Gade came early into the Royal Danish Theater school . He stood as a ballet child on

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for the first time in 1836 in " Hermann von Unna, "but first had its debut 8 January 1844 in the " Festival in Albano ". His tall and powerful figure meant, howeverthat it was not as a dancer he should be known but as a

. It was the character roles, ranging from the deepest tragic to the comic boldly, that was his strength. His roles include corporal Nouveau " Bellman ", King Svend in" Valdemar , "Knight Mogens in"

A Folk Tale ''A Folk Tale'' ( da, Et Folkesagn) is a ballet in three acts, created in 1854 for the Royal Danish Ballet by the Danish ballet master and choreographer August Bournonville to the music of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann and Niels W. Gade. The firs ...

"servant of" Mountain Ground ", and perhaps the greatest of them all as Bear in"

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". In addition to his position as a dancer in ballet staff, he also had other tasks at the theater. In the 1857–1858 season, he was appointed as a stage

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for the opera, during

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's leaves he served several times as a ballet conductor. After Bournonville's death in 1879, he took over the leadership of the Danish ballet. He retired from the

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at the end of the in 1889–1890 season, but later performed a few times as a guest of

Harald Wartooth Harald Wartooth or ''Harold Hiltertooth'' (Old Norse: Haraldr hilditǫnn; Modern Swedish and Danish: Harald Hildetand; Modern Norwegian: ''Harald Hildetann''; flourished 8th century) was a legendary king of Denmark who is mentioned in several trad ...

's role in 'Valkyrie'.Ludvig Gade
Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. Retrieved 8 October 2014 Gade became

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in 1886 and is buried in

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. There is a painting of him by COJ Lund at the Royal Theatre as well as a woodcut of O. Andersen modelled after Lund's photograph.

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