Carl Joachim Andersen was a Danish flutist, conductor and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 born 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...

, son of the flutist Christian Joachim Andersen. Both as a virtuoso and as composer of flute music, he is considered one of the best of his time. He was a tough leader and teacher and demanded as such a lot from his orchestras but through that style he reached a high level.

Biography

As well as his little brother, Viggo was taught by his father and already as a child he performed with success at a Danish theater called Casino accompanied by the little harpist Frantz Pønitz. From when he was 13 years old to the year of 1868 he was first flutist in a musical orchestra in Copenhagen conducted by Niels Gade.

In 1869 he became employed by the Royal Danish Orchestra

Royal Danish Orchestra

The Royal Danish Orchestra is a Danish orchestra based in Copenhagen. The Danish name for the orchestra indicates its original function as an ensemble geared to supplying the music for court events...

 as a flutist but resigned after a year of leave in 1878. He was longing for larger challenges and went abroad. First stop was Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

 (1878-1880) where he was engaged by St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

The Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra was formed in 1882 and is Russia's oldest symphony orchestra.It was initially known as the "Imperial Music Choir" and performed privately for the court of Alexander III of Russia. By the 1900s it had started to give public performances at the...

. Afterwards in 1881 he went to 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...

 where he was engaged in Bilse's Band as a solo flutist as well as he was in the Royal German Opera.

In 1882 he was a co-founder of the Berlin Philharmonic, which he and 53 other musicians formed out of the former Bilse's Band. Along with his job as a solo flutist, he took over more and more conductor's assignments and conducted over 8 summers one of the orchestra's two daily concerts in Scheveningen.

In 1893 Andersen was forced to resign his job because of a paralysation in his tongue and travelled then back to Copenhagen where he was employed as a composer. Among other pieces he was the composer of concerts in Tivoli Gardens. In 1897 he founded an orchestra school and was, until his death, leader and professor in conducting at the school. In 1905 he was knighted by king Christian IX of Denmark

Christian IX of Denmark

Christian IX was King of Denmark from 16 November 1863 to 29 January 1906.Growing up as a prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a junior branch of the House of Oldenburg which had ruled Denmark since 1448, Christian was originally not in the immediate line of succession to the Danish...

 to the Order of the Dannebrog

Order of the Dannebrog

The Order of the Dannebrog is an Order of Denmark, instituted in 1671 by Christian V. It resulted from a move in 1660 to break the absolutism of the nobility. The Order was only to comprise 50 noble Knights in one class plus the Master of the Order, i.e. the Danish monarch, and his sons...

.

Works

His compositions are almost exclusively for the flute

Western concert flute

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. His 8 volumes of etude

Étude

An étude , is an instrumental musical composition, most commonly of considerable difficulty, usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill. The tradition of writing études emerged in the early 19th century with the rapidly growing popularity of the piano...

s for flutists of the highest level are considered his largest success. They are still used all over the world when one wants to be a top professional.

His complete works consist of 67 opus

Opus number

An Opus number , pl. opera and opuses, abbreviated, sing. Op. and pl. Opp. refers to a number generally assigned by composers to an individual composition or set of compositions on publication, to help identify their works...

es which are mainly for the flute including solo pieces and piano accompanied pieces. The Christian X's Honour March that was composed to the then crown prince reached popularity.

List of works

The following list is incomplete.

• op.2 - Hungarian Fantasie (Ungarsk fantasi)
• op.3 - Concert piece (Koncertstykke)
• op.5 - Ballade and dance of the sylphs (Ballade et danse des Sylphes)
• op.7 - Impromptu
• op.8 - Moto perpetuo
• op.9 - At the river shore (Au Bord de la Mer)
• op.10 - Tarantella
• op.15 - Etudes for flute (Fløjteetuder)
• op.16 - Characteristic Fantasy (Fantaisie Caractéristique)
• op.19 - Album sheet (Album-Blatt)
• op.21 - Etudes for flute (Fløjteetuder)
• op.22 - The resignation and polonaise (La Resignation et Polonaise)
• op.24 - Six salon pieces in two suites (Six Morceaux de Salon, en deux Suites)
• op.26 - Variations Drolatiques
• op.27 - Elegy variations (Variations Elegiaques)
• op.28 - Two pieces (Deux Morceaux)
• op.30 - Etudes for flute (Fløjteetuder)
• op.33 - Etudes for flute (Fløjteetuder)
• op.35 - Wien Neerlands Bloed
• op.37 - Etudes for flute (Fløjteetuder)
• op.41 - Etudes for flute (Fløjteetuder)
• op.44 - L'Hirondelle
• op.45 - Opera transcriptions (Operatranskriptioner)
• op.46 - Reunion (Wiedersehen)
• op.47 - Solo performance for young flutists (Solovortrag für junge Flötenspieler)
• op.48 - Allegro Militaire
• op.49 - Devils Polka (Pirun Polska)
• op.50 - 6 Swedish polkas (6 Svenske polsker)
• op.51 - Four salon pieces (Quatre Morceaux de Salon)
• op.52 - Salon pieces, part 1 + 2 (Salonstücke Heft 1 + 2)
• op.53 - Canzone + Memory (Canzone + Erinnerung)
• op.54 - Deuxiéme Impromptu
• op.55 - Eight Performer Pieces (Acht Vortragsstücke)
• op.56 - Five easy pieces (Fünf leichtere Stücke)
• op.57 - Three pieces (Troi Morceaux)
• op.58 - Capriccio
• op.59 - National Fantasies (Fantasies Nationales)
• op.60 - Etudes for flute (Fløjteetuder)
• op.61 - Second concert piece (Deuxiéme Morceaux de Concert)
• op.62 - Ten pieces (Dix morceaux)
• op.63 - 24 Technical Etudes (24 Etudes Techniques)
• op.67 - Etudes for flute (Fløjteetuder)

List over pieces (not opuses)

• Dances
• Marches
• Some mood pieces
• Christian X's Honour March (Christian d. 10.'s honnørmarch)
• Silver Myrtles (piano)
• Sølvmyrter Vals (piano)
• Slaraffia-Polka-Mazurka (piano)

Media

External links

• Overview of Andersen's compositions in the royal Danish library, with pdf's of most of the music
• Creative Flute free sheet music for Flute

the mp3 file "étude for solo flute by scott goff" is op.15 n.3 of the composer joachim andersen(the piece is this http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e1/IMSLP18417-Andersen_24_Etudes_Op15.pdf)