The Langgaard Foundation

Komponisten Rued Langgaard og hustru Constance Langgaards Fond

The Langgaard Foundation, founded in memory of the composer Rued Langgaard and his wife Constance Langgaard on 25th August 1969, has the aim of spreading knowledge of the composer's music. It was founded shortly after the death of Constance Langgaard, since Rued and Constance Langgaard had left no heirs. The Foundation manages the rights to Langgaard's music, and its resources come from performance revenues and sales of Langgaard's works.

Since June 1998 the Board of Trustees of the Foundation has consisted of Attorney Asbjørn Rønn-Simonsen (chairman); Head of Department Birgit Elvang; Head of the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music Bertel Krarup, the composer and conductor Ole Schmidt; and Bendt Viinholt Nielsen, music researcher.

Over the years the Langgaard Foundation has mainly supported concert and recording initiatives, including a current re-recording of all the composer's symphonies and the performance of the opera Antichrist at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck in 1999. The Foundation's highest priority for the next few years is to publish Langgaard's works and make them generally accessible in printed form. The first step in this direction was taken in 1998 when the Foundation signed a publishing contract with SAMFUNDET, the Society for the Publication of Danish Music, covering all works by Langgaard not already published by other publishers. A very extensive computer printing and publishing project has now been launched.

In 1999 the Foundation funded a composer folder about Rued Langgaard, which has been published in several languages. The folder is available from Samfundet. The main text of the folder can be read here: Danish - English - German - French.

Letters to the Foundation should be addressed to
The Langgaard Foundation,
c/o Attorney Asbjørn Rønn-Simonsen,
Amager Landevej 12, DK-2770 Kastrup.
Phone +45 32 50 13 32. Fax +45 32 50 11 04. E-mail: ars@amageradvokaten.dk

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