Irene Georgia Skovgaard (December 2, 1902 - March 12, 1982) was a Danish[1] writer, composer,[2] and music educator who specialized in recorder music and canons, and belonged to the Skovgaard family of artists.[3][4][5]
Skovgaard was one of eight children born to Ingeborg Luplau Møller and the painter Niels Kristian Skovgaard. Her grandfather was Peter Christian Skovgaard, the well-known Danish landscape painter. She studied piano and voice at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, finishing in 1930.[6]
In 1939, Skovgaard and Werner Wolf Glaser opened a School of Music in Lyngbby, Denmark.[6][7] Skovgaard collaborated with Glaser, as well as with her brother Hjalte Skovgaard, on several publications (see below).
Skovgaard’s works were published by Imudico and Skandinavisk Musikforlag.[8] They include:
Book edit
- Et Kunstnerhjem : Niels Skovgaards Hjem paa Karlsberg ved Hillerød (An Artist's Home: Niels Skovgaard's Home on Karlsberg near Hillerød)[8]
Music edit
- 150 Newer Canons[8]
- 150 Older Canons[9]
- Blokflojteskole (Recorder Method)[10]
- Blokfløjteskole : Tillæg (Recorder Method Supplement)[8]
- Fuglene synger : 20 Kanon'er (The Birds Sing: 20 Canons; with Werner Wolf Glaser and Hjalte Skovgaard; text by Irene Skovgaard)[8]
- Tolv Juleviser (Twelve Christmas Poems; collected and translated by Irene Skovgaard edited by Werner Wolf Glaser)[11]
- “Uret Siger Tiketakke” (The Clock Says Tick Tock)[8]
References edit
- ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Books & Music (USA). ISBN 978-0-9617485-2-4.
- ^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
- ^ Skovgaard, Irene Georgia. "geni.com". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- ^ Skovgaard, Irene Georgia. "myheritage.com". www.myheritage.com. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- ^ Skovgaard, Irene Georgia. "Skovgaard-familien". www.skovgaardmuseet.dk (in Danish). Archived from the original on 2022-01-18. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
- ^ a b Berg, Sigurd (1959). Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium, 1917-1953 (in Danish). Det Berlingske bogtrykkeri.
- ^ "Glaser, Werner Wolf | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- ^ a b c d e f Skovgaard, Irene Georgia. "worldcat.org". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- ^ Acta Musicologica (in German). Breitkopf & Härtel. 1950.
- ^ "Irene Skovgård: Blokfløjteskole". Presto Music. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- ^ Århus, Statsbiblioteket i; Clausen, Per Groth (1977). Danish music (in Danish). Universitetsforlaget i Aarhus. ISBN 978-87-504-0392-0.