Viggo Bielefeldt


Viggo Emil Bielefeldt was a Danish composer, singer, cantor and music teacher. His father Heinrich Hellmuth Bielefeldt was an immigrant from Mecklenburg, Germany.

Life and career

Bielefeldt was educated at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music from 1867–1869 in among other things, singing and piano with Carl Helsted and August Winding respectively as teachers. He debuted as a romance singer on 2 March 1872 and was thereafter a well-known and valued singer in this field
In addition, he was a singing teacher at Horneman's music school and from 1883 at the Conservatory of Music. From 1880 he was cantor at Trinitatis Kirke and from 1887 at Holmens Kirke. For a time, shortly after Gade's death, he was also organist at the same church. In 1900 he was appointed titular professor. In 1892 he became a Knight of the Dannebrog and in 1905 a Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn.
He is buried at Hellerup Kirkegård, with a gravestone made by J. Schannongs Granit-Industri.

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