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Jacob GadeBorn: 1879Died: 1963Nationality: Danish
Jacob Gade is the composer behind what is probably the most frequently playedpiece of Danish music of all: Jalousie. Tango Tsigane (1925) – better known asJealousy.
Jacob Gade was born in the Danish provincial town of Vejle. His father was a folkmusician and as early as the age of 9 Jacob Gade played the trumpet in his father’sband. Later Jacob Gade learned to play the violin and travelled at the age of 16 toCopenhagen to seek his fortune as a musician in the city’s restaurants and hotels,After a few years his career as both a musician and composer began to pick upspeed in earnest. In 1919 Gade travelled to the USA and competed for a place in theorchestra that was later to become the New York Philharmonic.
In 1921 Jacob Gade returned to Denmark and his glory days as an orchestral leaderand composer began. With a 24man orchestra he played for silent films at thePalads Theatre in Copenhagen. It is from this time that Tango Jalousie comes –originally written in 1925 for the film Don Q with Douglas Fairbanks in the leading role. Other examples of Jacob Gade’s filmmusic are the suites of cinema music that can be found in editions for piano solo and lounge orchestra.
The emergence and spread of the talkies around 1930 meant the end of this ‘Kino’ music and the presence of the big lightorchestras in the cinemas. Jacob Gade retired as a conductor and lived for the rest of his life as a composer. The dramaticnerve of the film music faded out through the 1930s in favour of a more romantic, sentimental idiom. This can be heard forexample in the orchestral suite Leda and the Swan from 1940.
The earnings from Tango Jalousie and Gade’s other works form the financial basis of the Jacob Gade Grant, which isawarded once a year to talented Danish musicians undergoing a musical education. The succession of musical talents whohave been given an economic helping hand this way over time includes the recorder player Michala Petri, the conductorMichael Schønwandt, the harpsichordist Lars Ulrik Mortensen, the conductor Thomas Dausgaard, the violinist Nikolaj Znaiderand the pianist Katrine Gislinge. In this way the Jacob Gade Grant has made its mark as one of the most important musicawards.
Hjarne Fessel 2014
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