Christian Barnekow - Trio in F sharp minor, op. 1

Christian Barnekow

(28 July 1837 – 20 March 1913) was a Danish noble man and composer.

 Trio in F sharp minor, op. 1

Violin: Julie Eskær.
Cello: Emilie Eskær.
Piano, Charlotte Thanning.

Christian Barnekow was born and lived his first 2 years in St. Sauveur, Hautes-Pyrenees in France, where the family stayed because of his father's poor health. When his father died in 1839 the family moved back to Copenhagen where he grew up in his grandfather's house.

Barnekow got music lessons by Niels Ravnkilde and later by Edward Helsted. After being graduated in 1856, he worked on with the music and was an accomplished piano and organ player and also began composing. Barnekow was financially independent and undertook never a permanent paid work. Along with contemporary musicians and composers (including Emil Hartmann, Jorgen Malling, August Winding and Gottfred Matthison-Hansen) he organized subscription concerts at the Copenhagen hotel phoenix. Here was his up. 1 built in 1861. He taught sporadically, and acted as organist include temporary for J.P.E. Hartmann and Niels W Gade and in addition, he participated in music-related association activities. he was such Chairman of the Music Society from 1895 until his death and co-founder and one time president of the Society for the publication of Danish music. He was a Knight of the Dannebrog.


The Society for the Publication of Danish Music he arranged music for piano arrangement. F.L.Æ. Kunzen Gyrithe, Johann Hartmann Balder's death and the Fishermen and music by Buxtehude Diderik are some of his works in this genre. In 1908 he published: altars Geistliche Lieder 1-8 with music by Johann Christian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and JAP Schultz in processing.

His work includes a few chamber music works, but most of his work is like romance songs both secular and ecclesiastical use. In his contemporaries was his melodies popular. In Danish biographical encyclopedia 1905 praised him for "The simple, modest, heartfelt melody (as) was what he did to his special assignment, and here he has worked significantly in the good sense," popular "and religious orientation."

He was thus also contributes to the editor of and adviser to several editions of hymn collections and choral books. However, there was currently a dispute between 2 directions for how a popular song or hymn should look like. Barnekow stood on the old style romance tradition back from Weyse, Henrik Rung and AP Berggreen, but it was the new style with Thomas Laub and Carl Nielsen in the lead, who took the prize. So today Barnekows sung hymns and songs hardly more. The Coral Book of 1949 by Mogens Wøldike and Jens Peder Larsen says 9 melodies of Barnekow. For approx. half of which are duplicated by other better-known tunes to the same text.