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== | Danish composer, lawyer and music publisher (b. 16 October 1848 {{NS}} in Elsinore (Helsingør); d. 18 February 1923), born '''''Henrik Jacob Christian Amalius Otto Hennings'''''. | ||
Tchaikovsky | |||
After studying at the newly-established Danish Academy of Music from 1867, he went on to study politics in 1870, and embarked on a legal career five years later. However, he continued to compose, writing many songs on German and Scandinavian texts <ref name="note1"/>. In 1880, he was appointed director of the ''Royal Hofmusikboghandel'', and eight years later became its proprietor, and was a very active figure in Scandinavian music publishing and arranging concerts throughout Denmark. | |||
==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky== | |||
One letter from Tchaikovsky to Henrik Hennings has survived, dating from 1892, and has been translated into English on this website: | |||
* '''[[Letter 4607]]''' – 29 January/10 February 1892, from [[Maydanovo]] | |||
One letter from Hennings to Tchaikovsky, dating from 1892, is preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]]. | |||
==Notes and References== | |||
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<ref name="note1">One of his song cycles, ''Sechs Lieder von H. Heine'', includes a setting of [[Heine]]'s poem ''Warum sind denn die Rosen so blaß?'', which Tchaikovsky also set to music (in a Russian translation by [[Lev Mey]]) as ''Why?'' (Отчего?), No. 5 of the [[Six Romances, Op. 6]].</ref> | |||
</references> | |||
[[Category:People|Hennings, Henrik]] | |||
[[Category:Composers|Hennings, Henrik]] | |||
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Danish composer, lawyer and music publisher (b. 16 October 1848 [N.S.] in Elsinore (Helsingør); d. 18 February 1923), born Henrik Jacob Christian Amalius Otto Hennings.
After studying at the newly-established Danish Academy of Music from 1867, he went on to study politics in 1870, and embarked on a legal career five years later. However, he continued to compose, writing many songs on German and Scandinavian texts [1]. In 1880, he was appointed director of the Royal Hofmusikboghandel, and eight years later became its proprietor, and was a very active figure in Scandinavian music publishing and arranging concerts throughout Denmark.
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
One letter from Tchaikovsky to Henrik Hennings has survived, dating from 1892, and has been translated into English on this website:
- Letter 4607 – 29 January/10 February 1892, from Maydanovo
One letter from Hennings to Tchaikovsky, dating from 1892, is preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin.
Notes and References
- ↑ One of his song cycles, Sechs Lieder von H. Heine, includes a setting of Heine's poem Warum sind denn die Rosen so blaß?, which Tchaikovsky also set to music (in a Russian translation by Lev Mey) as Why? (Отчего?), No. 5 of the Six Romances, Op. 6.
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