Fritz Crome
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Fritz Crome was a Danish
composer and music writer.
Crom & Goldschmidt in Copenhagen
. He started an engineering course at the Danish Polytechnic (DTU), but soon switched to music. He trained as a pianist with Louis Glass
and later studied in Paris
and Berlin
. He was then employed at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin
, while he worked as a music writer, both in Germany and Scandinavia. From 1925 until his death he was employed as a teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Cromer's musical output was relatively small and conservative. It included all the songs that were inspired by Hugo Wolf
, notably.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
composer and music writer.
Biography
Fritz Crome was the son of August Crome, who founded the storeRetailing
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Crom & Goldschmidt in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
. He started an engineering course at the Danish Polytechnic (DTU), but soon switched to music. He trained as a pianist with Louis Glass
Louis Glass
Louis Glass was a Danish composer.Glass, born in Copenhagen, was almost an exact contemporary of Carl Nielsen and like Nielsen was a student of Niels Gade. However, Glass also studied at the Brussels Conservatory where he became enamored of the music of César Franck and Anton Bruckner, both of...
and later studied in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
and Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. He was then employed at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, while he worked as a music writer, both in Germany and Scandinavia. From 1925 until his death he was employed as a teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Cromer's musical output was relatively small and conservative. It included all the songs that were inspired by Hugo Wolf
Hugo Wolf
Hugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in...
, notably.