Frederik Magle

Quick Facts

Full Name	Frederik Magle
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Apr 17, 1977(1977-04-17)
Age	47
Birthplace	Stubbekøbing
Country	Denmark
Birth City	Region Zealand
Horoscope	Aries

Frederik Magle Biography

Frederik Magle is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on April 17, 1977 in Stubbekøbing, Region Zealand, Denmark. Mixing traditional music and other styles. He composed a plethora of orchestral works as well as works for cantatas and chamber music as well as organ solos. His most well-known compositions include “The Hope,” “Like a Flame,” and “Cantabile,” a symphonic suite.

The first album he released featured songs that were based on fairy stories composed by His first CD featured songs based on the fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen..

Frederik Reesen Magle (Danish pronunciation: [ˈfʁeðˀʁek ˈmɑwlə] ; born 17 April 1977) is a Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist. He writes contemporary classical music as well as fusion of classical music and other genres. His compositions include orchestral works, cantatas, chamber music, and solo works (mainly for organ), including several compositions commissioned by the Danish Royal Family. Magle has gained a reputation as an organ virtuoso, and as a composer and performing artist who does not refrain from venturing into more experimental projects – often with improvisation – bordering jazz, electronica, and other non-classical genres.

The first public performance of one of Frederik Magle’s compositions took place on Easter morning 7 April 1985, in Stubbekøbing church, where a children’s choir performed an Easter hymn he had composed. Two years later, in 1987, six of his hymns with texts by his mother Mimi Heinrich were performed by actress and singer Annie Birgit Garde at a concert in Lyngby church, and the same year he played on television for the first time. In 1988, two of his larger works, the cantata We are afraid, and the “mini-musical” A Christmas Child, were premiered in Grundtvig’s Church in Copenhagen before an audience of 2,000 people. He began a collaboration with the violinist Nikolaj Znaider in 1990, and they performed a series of concerts together. Later, Znaider gave the first performance of Magle’s variations for violin and piano in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, with the pianist Daniel Gortler: Journey in time describes a “kind of scenes or musical images” with the use of sharp dissonances, complicated rhythms and dramatic transitions and thematic formations.

His parents were famous Danish writer and actress Mimi Heinrich and Christian Reesen Magle Organist as well as a painter and sculptor.

Frederik Magle Net Worth

Frederik Magle is one of the richest Composer from Denmark. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Frederik Magle 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started attending his first class at the Royal Danish Academy of Music when he was 16 but he left after a period of a year of studying to concentrate on his own composition.

He was famous for keeping his notebook in the vicinity while he slept because the majority the ideas he had would be revealed through dreams.

Frederik Magle was born in Stubbekøbing, the son of actress and writer Mimi Heinrich and organist, painter and sculptor Christian Reesen Magle (1925–96). He is the great-nephew of the composer Emil Reesen (his grandmother’s brother). Recognized early as a child prodigy, he appeared on television and in the news media at the age of 9.

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Magle’s father died in 1996, shortly before the first performance of Frederik Magle’s Christmas cantata A newborn child, before eternity, God!, which is dedicated to him. Magle was awarded the Freemason’s Arts Prize in 2001. In 2006 he took ownership of the classical music internet forum “Talk Classical”.

Facts & Trivia

Frederik Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Denmark. Frederik Magle celebrates birthday on April 17 of every year.

Magle played the organ at the christening of Prince Nikolai at Fredensborg Castle in 1999 and gave the first performance of his composition Lys på din vej (Light on your path) for organ and brass quintet, with the Brass Ensemble of the Royal Danish Guards, as postlude. Lys på din vej was released on an album with the same title the following year, which received mixed reviews, being criticized especially by the newspaper Politiken for consisting of “endless repetitions of the same melodic material without development”. The piece was re-recorded in 2013 by the Brass Ensemble of the Royal Danish Guards in a new version on their album Nordisk Musik (Nordic Music). At the christening of Prince Felix in Møgeltønder church in 2002 another work by Frederik Magle was also premiered as postlude.