Peter Arnold Heise (Composer)
Born: 11th February 1830, Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: 12th September 1879, Taarbaek, Denmark
Nationality: Danish
Peter Heise was a Danish composer, best known for the opera Drot og Marsk (King and Marshal).
Heise's parents tried to press him into becoming a lawyer, but he scored highly in music at school, so he changed direction. He began writing songs at the age of 19. As a young man he collected several hundred folk songs directly from ordinary people. He used these tunes in Tornerose (Sleeping Beauty) and Bergliot (A Danish historical romance).
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- Afsked med vinteren (Farewell to Winter) (1)
- Aften paa Loggiaen (1)
- Agnetes Vuggevise i havmandens slot (1)
- Arnes sang (1)
- Bergliot (1)
- Bergmanden (2)
- Borgjomfruen (The Castle Maiden) (1)
- Bryllupssang (Wedding Song) (1)
- Cello Sonata No. 3 in A minor (2)
- Danmarks kæmpegrave (Denmark’s Giants’ Graves) (1)
- Dans!, ropte felen (Text: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) (1)
- De smukke (The Beauties) (1)
- Den unge laerkes forarssang (1)
- Den vilde rosenbusk (The wild Rose-Bush) (1)
- Dengang jeg var kun saa stor som saa (1)
- Dengang jeg var ung og elskovsfuld (1)
- Der var en svend med sin Pigelil (1)
- Det er efterår (It’s Autumn) (1)
- Det vågnende forår (The wakening Spring) (1)
- Det var en svend med sin pigelil (1)
- Digte fra Middelalderen (Poems from the Middle Ages) (1)
- Din fader skal ikke skaende (No. 4 from Gammelhollandsk) (1)
- Drot og marsk (1)
- Dyvekes Sange - The Songs of Dyveke (3)
- En sommernat (1)
- Erotiske Digte (5) (1)
- Fantasy Piece No. 1 for cello and piano (1)
- Fantasy Piece No. 2 for cello and piano (1)
- Fantasy Piece No. 2 for horn and piano (1)
- Fantasy Pieces (2) for Cello & Piano (1)
- Farlige Drømme - Fatal Dreams - six poems from "Tannhäuser" by Holger Drachmann (2)
- For Danmark (For Denmark) (1)
- Forar og sommer (2)
- Forest Solitude (1)
- Glenten (1)
- Gravsang af Shakespeares “Cymbeline” (Dirge from Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline”) (1)
- Gudruns Sorg (4)
- Hvorfor ville du spørge mig? (No. 1 from Gammelhollandsk) (1)
- I skoven (Text: Henrik Hertz) (2)
- Ingen blomst i verdens lande (1)
- Introduktion og vals (Introduction and Waltz) (1)
- Jylland (Jutland) (1)
- King and Marshall (Drot og märsk) (2)
- Kongesønnens Romance af ‘Tornerose' (1)
- Lady Ingeborg's Farewell to the Marshal - King and Marshal (1)
- Lenau Songs (5) (1)
- Min skat (2)
- Når svanen drømmende på strømmen svæver (No. 2 from Lauras Sange af Robert Fulton) (1)
- Natten var mild og kjær (1)
- Piano Quintet in F major (2)
- Piano Trio in E flat major (1)
- Pieces (4) (1)
- Praskoviuschka (No. 5 from Russisk) (1)
- Romance - 'Ved den dunkle brønd' ('At the dark Well') (1)
- Sigøjnernes sang ved deres dronnings grav (The Gypsies’ Song at their Queen’s Grave) (1)
- Skonne fru Beatriz (No. 7 from Spansk) (1)
- Skovensomhed (No. 4 from Erotiske Digte) (2)
- Skønne fru Beatriz (2)
- Solveig's songs (1)
- String Quartet No. 1 in B minor (1)
- String Quartet No. 2 in G major (1)
- String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major (1)
- Til Bacchus (To Bacchus) (1)
- Til en veninde (No. 1 from Erotiske Digte) (1)
- Tonernes flugt (The Flight of the Notes) (1)
- Tornerose (The Sleeping Beauty) (1)
- Tre katte (Three Cats) (1)
- Vaagn af din Slummer af ‘Bertran de Born' (1)
- Vårsang i høst (No. 1 from Kærlighedssange) (1)