Hakon Børresen - Violin Concerto in G Major, op. 11 (1904)

 

Axel Ejnar Hakon Børresen (2 June 1876, Copenhagen – 6 October 1954, Copenhagen) was one of the foremost Danish composers of the 20th century.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Violin Concerto in G Major, op. 11 (1904)

 

I Introduction - Allegro moderato
II Adagio
III Molto vivace

Aalborg Symfoniorkester.
Rebecca Hirsch, violin.
Owain Arwel Hughes, dirigent.
Hakon Børresen, komponist

 

 

Life

Børresen was descended from a merchant family. As a child, he was given violin, cello and piano lessons. When Børresen made clear to his father that he wished to become a composer, the latter arranged for him to study at the Royal Danish Conservatory in 1895. There he studied composition with Johan Svendsen. After further private studies, his First Symphony was privately premiered in 1901. It made his name as an up-and-coming composer. There followed travels in Germany, France and Belgium, where he made many useful connections. From 1902 on he divided his time between Copenhagen and Skagen where he maintained a second home. Børresen was an important organizer of several Danish music festivals and served as the president of Danish Composers Union between 1924 and 1949. At the time of his death, he was widely regarded as one of Denmark's most important musicians. His opera The Royal Guest is widely regarded as the best early 20th-century Danish opera, and his chamber music works received considerable critical praise.

Tonal language

Børresen's style and musical language are primarily that of the late Romantic. His music shows little or no influence from more modern tendencies. Instead, his music takes as its inspiration Danish cultural ideas and folk melodies. His style reflects the influence of his teacher Svendsen, as well as that of Tchaikovsky.[영어위키]

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The family was quite wealthy and who it belonged to the respectable bourgeois home, the boy had early

training in piano, violin, cello and music theory. As a 19-year-old wanted Hakon Borresen becoming a composer, but his father demanded a competent person's judgment upon the skill before he would support his son's passion.

The first major task was the first symphony in C minor, which was built in 1901 by the Royal. Chapel under Svendsen's leadership. The symphony attracted considerable attention. Borresen got the Ancker scholarship, and went in 1902 in Europe on a study trip. He traveled to Leipzig, where Borresen including met the world famous conductor Arthur Nikisch, who repeatedly directed Børresen Violin Concerto in concerts all over Germany, to Paris where he lived among a circle of composers around Vincent d'Indy and Brussels, where he met the famous violin virtuoso and composer Eugene Ysaye .

His youth was marked by the Danish romantic tradition, and he was throughout life faithful to the ideals of romantic music. He did not follow the modern trends and was not to confuse the break with senromantikken, which was launched at the beginning of the century. You could say that Borresen was a conservative composer. Borresen was fascinated by the sea, and he shared his life between an apartment at the Marble Church in Copenhagen and a house in Skagen. At Skagen, he was a musical part in the famous Krøyerske and Ancher artist circle. About this he wrote: "Here is peace and quiet, lovely summer, but also great in the winter. Skagen is situated on the northernmost tip. Sea is the same as 50 years ago - the vast horizon and the large air painting. I can not see anything other than that there is a big connection between painting and music. Krøyer work so like music and I have often played in his studio where he painted ".

His biggest success was the opera The Royal Guest, which was premiered at the Royal Theatre on 15 november 1919th Opera's action is based on Henrik Pontoppidan's short story from 1908 of the same name. The opera was performed 134 times at the Royal Theatre (until 1964). There have since been several concert performances and the overture is played regularly.

In his second opera Kaddara gives Borresen some pictures of the Greenlandic folk with a rhythmic credible tone of the gay scene. Also, this opera was performed successfully at the Royal. Theatre, and was 25 years later (1946) rebuilt the theater on the occasion of the Greenland delegation's first visit to Copenhagen after the liberation of Denmark. The opera was performed several times in 1924-25 at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and Komische Oper in Königsberg.

From 1924-1949 had Hakon Borresen chairman of the Danish Composers' Association. He was also active in other political musical contexts including at Nordic level. He was a member of the Academy of Music in Stockholm and an honorary member of Norwegian Composers' Society. In 1935 he was one of the initiators of the creation of the Music Council of Denmark, and he became the first Council president. He praised in some quarters for his efforts in these contexts, but there was now even those who regarded him as a disincentive to change.

He also sat on the board of the Society for the Publication of Danish Music, was a member of the Ancker Scholarship Committee of the Board of the Cultural Foundation of the Arts Commission of 1933 and a member of the board of Skagen Museum. He was a Knight of the Dannebrog and the Dannebrog man.

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