Johannes Frederik Fröhlich (1806–1860), a Danish

Denmark

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 violinist, conductor and composer, was a precursor of Niels Gade and J.P.E. Hartmann, and a central figure in Danish musical circles during the Romantic era

Romantic music

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.

He was a pupil of violinists Claus Schall

Claus Schall

Claus Nielsen Schall was a Danish violinist and composer.-Notable works:*Bønderne og herrerne på lystgården *Kjærlighedens og Mistankens Magt *Savoyardinderne...

 and Friedrich Kuhlau

Friedrich Kuhlau

Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau was a German-Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danish Golden Age....

. From 1827 he worked at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen

Royal Danish Theatre

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, where he was chief conductor from 1836. Fröhlich was a co-founder of the Music Society of Copenhagen

Musikforeningen

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 and its first chairman. He wrote a symphony (in E-flat, Op. 33), and choral works and chamber music, as well as violin and piano compositions and a violin concerto. He wrote ballet music for the ballet-master and choreographer August Bournonville

August Bournonville

August Bournonville was a Danish ballet master and choreographer. August was the son of Antoine Bournonville, a dancer and choreographer trained under the French choreographer, Jean Georges Noverre, and the nephew of Julie Alix de la Fay, née Bournonville, of the Royal Swedish Ballet.August was...

, founder of the Danish ballet tradition.

The main cache of his musical manuscripts is conserved in the Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen.

Notable works

• op. 1 Strygekvartet nr. 1 i d-mol (1825)
• op. 2 Strygekvartet nr. 2 i A-dur
• op. 3 violinkoncerter (1825)
• Ouverture til Kong Salomon og Jørgen Hattemager (1825)
• op. 4 Koncertino for Violin (1826)
• op. 6 Introduktion og Polonaise for Violin med Orkester
• op. 7 violinkoncert
• op. 15 Strygekvartet (1827)
• op. 17 Strygekvartet (muligvis 3 kvartetter 1827)
• op. 19 Kvartet for 4 Horn (1827)
• op. 20 Koncertino for Violin og 4 horn (1827)
• Ouverture til Freias Alter (1828)
• op. 24 Introduktion og Rondo for Horn med Orkester (1829)
• Sonate i a-mol for Piano og Fløjte
• op. 30 Violinkoncert (1829)
• op. 30 Symfoni (1830)
• op. 33 Symfoni i E^b-dur
• Natten før Brylluppet (syngespil 1829)
• op. 39 koncertouverture for Orkester
• op. 40 Marche og Jagtstykke for 9 Horn (1832)
• Nina (ballet)
• Tyrolerne (ballet)
• Valdemar (ballet 1835)
• Festen i Albano (ballet 1839)
• Fædrelandets muser (ballet 1840)
• op. 51 Erik Menveds Barndom (ballet - med Riberhusmarch - 1843)
• Rafael (ballet 1845)
• Hertas Offer (ballet)
• Abekatten (vaudeville af Johanne Louise Heiberg)
• Majgildet (ouverture)
• Maurerbrüder hemmet nicht die Zähre
• Kantate til Christian 8.s kroningsfest
• En Søndag på Amager