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About Joachim Neergaard
- Joachim Brunn de Neergaard (27 April 1877 – 31 October 1920) was a Danish composer. Neergaard was born in Stubberup, a small village in the east-central part of Jutland in 1877.
- He came from scions of an aristocratic family with long service to the Danish government and as such was eventually sent to take a law degree which he finished in 1901.
- However, Neergaard's true love was music and not the law.
- He had studied piano from the time of his youth and wished to pursue a career in music.
- To this end, he took advanced piano studies while at the same time studying theory and composition.
- Neergaard, whose life was relatively short, was not a prolific composer and left us with less than 30 works.
- He died in Sorø, south of Copenhagen, in 1920. He wrote a little-known but highly regarded string quartet between 1908 and 1910.
- It is written in a post-Brahmsian, late Romantic idiom, a style cultivated at that time by composers such as Arnold Schoenberg (before he started composing 12 tone music), Erno Dohnányi, Ferruccio Busoni, Zemlinsky, Karl Weigl, and Franz Schmidt.
- Of this quartet, the editor of The Chamber Music Journal has written, "Neergaard's Quartet is as fine as anything from this period.
- The melodies are lush and memorable, the movements perfectly executed and the part-writing leaves nothing to be desired."
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