Editing Rued Langgaard (section)

== Life ==
Born in [[Copenhagen]], Rued Langgaard was the only son of composer and Royal Chamber musician Siegfried Langgaard (1852–1914) and Emma Langgaard (née Foss, 1861–1926), both of whom were pianists.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/long-bio/rued-langgaard/|title=Rued Langgaard – Long Biography – Music Sales Classical|website=www.musicsalesclassical.com|access-date=2 October 2018}}</ref> At the age of five Rued began taking piano lessons with his mother, and later with his father and a private teacher. His talent emerged quickly, and at seven he was able to play [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]]'s ''[[Davidsbündlertänze]]'' and [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]]'s [[mazurka]]s. By then he had begun to compose short pieces for the piano and play the organ. At 10 he began to study the organ under [[Gustav Helsted]], organist at the [[Jesus Church, Valby|Jesuskirken in Valby]], and the violin under Chr. Petersen, formerly of the Royal Orchestra.

At the age of 11 he made his first public appearance as an organist and improviser on the organ at a concert at the [[Frederick's Church|Frederikskirken]] (Marmorkirken) in Copenhagen. When he was 12, he started to study [[music theory]] under [[C. F. E. Horneman]] and, later, Vilhelm Rosenberg.

Langgaard's first compositions, 2 piano pieces and 2 songs, were published when he was 13, and around that time he was taught [[counterpoint]] by the celebrated composer [[Carl Nielsen]] for about a month. A year later, his choral work ''Musae triumphantes'' was performed at a concert in Copenhagen, marking his public debut as a composer. During his teen years he continued composing and travelled with his parents around Christmas and New Year's Eve, meeting conductors [[Arthur Nikisch]] and [[Max Fiedler]].

At 18, Langgaard served as assistant organist at the Frederikskirken (Marmorkirken) in Copenhagen. The following year (1913) his ''Symphony No. 1 "Mountain Pastorals"'' received its first performance at a concert in Berlin with the [[Berlin Philharmonic]] under the baton of Max Fiedler.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/introducing-your-next-great-musical-discovery-rued-langgaard|title=Introducing your next great musical discovery: Rued Langgaard|last=Mellor|first=Andrew|date=25 September 2014|website=www.gramophone.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2 October 2018}}</ref>

His father died in 1914, and from 1915 to 1917 he was assistant organist at the Garnisons Kirke in Copenhagen. From 1917 onward he applied without success for the post of organist at a large number of churches in Copenhagen. In 1922 a young woman named Valborg Constance Olivia Tetens (she was known as Constance) moved in with Rued Langgaard and his mother in Copenhagen. A year after his mother died in 1926, Langgaard married Constance Tetens.

Although Langgaard was given a state grant from the age of 30, his works and job applications were almost continually rejected by the establishment. Only at the age of 46 did he manage to obtain a permanent job, as the organist at the [[Ribe Cathedral|cathedral]] in [[Ribe]], the oldest town in Denmark, situated in southwest [[Jutland]]. Just shy of his 59th birthday, Rued Langgaard died in Ribe, still unrecognized as a composer.